A mushroom hunter just made an interesting discovery in the woods of Minnesota that is the first of it’s kind.

The hunter came upon the body of conjoined fawns, which are believed to be the first first conjoined white-tail fawns that have ever reached full term and been delivered.

“It’s amazing and extremely rare,” said University of Georgia researcher Gino D’Angelo. “We can’t even estimate the rarity of this. Of the tens of millions of fawns born annually in the U.S., there are probably abnormalities happening in the wild we don’t even know about.”

Wanting to learn as much as they could about the fawns, researchers conducted a full necropsy, a CT Scan and an MRI on them. They confirmed that the fawns were a pair female twins that shared a body but had separate necks and heads.

They also confirmed that the fawns had two separate gastrointestinal tracts, with only one fully connected to the anus, two hearts, extra spleens, and a malformed liver. By analyzing their lungs, the researchers found that the fawns had been stillborn.

“Their anatomy indicates the fawns would never have been viable. Yet, they were found groomed and in a natural position, suggesting that the doe tried to care for them after delivery. The maternal instinct is very strong,” D’Angelo said.

After the researchers finished their tests, the fawns’ body was mounted and stuffed by taxidermists. D’Angelo explained that there are still many mysteries about conjoined twins in general.

“Even in humans we don’t know,” he said. “We think it’s an unnatural splitting of cells during early embryo development.”

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