Cuteness beyond belief

[Homicidalheathen]

That song one in a million (girls) comes to mind...

British parents give birth to second pair of one-in-a-million twins - one black, one white

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Friday, January 2nd 2009, 7:01 PM

LONDON - A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds - twice - by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and the other white.

Dean Durrant's newborn daughter Miya has dark skin like him. Twin sister Leah has fair skin like her blue-eyed, red-haired mother, Alison Spooner.

Their older siblings Lauren and Hayleigh, born in 2001, also have strikingly different skin tones and eye colors.

"There's no easy way to explain it all. I'm still in shock myself," Durrant, 33, told Sky News on Wednesday.

Both sets of twins are fraternal rather than identical, meaning they are the product of two separately fertilized eggs, so it is not unusual that they don't look alike. Miya's skin color was more influenced by her father's genes, while Leah takes after her mother.

But scientists say it's rare for a couple to have two sets of twins, end even rarer for them to have such different appearances.

"Even non-identical twins aren't that common," Dr. Sarah Jarvis of Britain's Royal College of General Practitioners told Sky. "Non-identical twins from mixed parents, of different races, less common still. To have two eggs fertilized and come out different colors, less common still. So, to have it happen twice must be one in millions."

The phenomenon is so uncommon that there are no statistics to illustrate its probability, although it is thought likely to become more common because of the growing number of mixed-race couples.

The twins were born prematurely in November in Frimley, southern England, and spent several weeks in the hospital. They are now at home with their parents in Fleet, 40 miles (60 kilometers) southwest of London.

[TitsMcGee]

That is really neat, and they are adorable.

[taysteewonderbunny]

wow! I want!

[Homicidalheathen]

see thats the problem with babies...they are cute and make you want them. Then...they grow up.

[taysteewonderbunny]

see thats the problem with babies...they are cute and make you want them. Then...they grow up.

Yeah, but I mean when I have money and health insurance and have a stable enough home environment. I'll deal with all the setbacks--I welcome the challenge.

What I mean I want is--best case scenario: I get highly phenotypically divergent twins, one of each gender, so that I get both a son and a daughter and only have to be pregnant once more and get to have the best of genetic blending all at one go.

[Rev.Reverence]

...great probability disaster!!! I mean (of course) the task of calculating the probability...

.....but this.....is exactly why I hate the word "race"...how can one call SIBLINGS "different race"...

...they have the approximately the same propensity to pass on the dark (or light) skin to the next generation...

[Mean Salley]

they totally have to learn "Ebony and Ivory"

[Guest greyhalo]

see thats the problem with babies...they are cute and make you want them. Then...they grow up.

They don't make me want them. Puppies and kittens are another story...

[Destroit]

They don't make me want them. Puppies and kittens are another story...

YEAP, being in a room with a baby or two for more than ten minutes actually reminds me why I don't want them . But kudos to anyone that does, apparantly babies are important in the grand scheme of the world.