Siamese twins?

Jerm

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In the last clutch of eggs that my ambilobe female pardalis laid, there were some eggs that were stuck together. Has anyone had this happen before. This was her first clutch, and I hope that it doesn't continue to happen because it looks like it could get to the point where she is unable to lay them if the cluster is too large. I'm glad that she passed these. I'm pretty sure that they are infertile, but Im not incubating them anyway. Their shell is softer than a normal egg. Any suggestions on what may have caused this? Here are a couple of pics:
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I hope some body Knows, thats quite intresting, never come accross egg fusing before. Be worth finding out what possibly causes it.
Maybe they will hatch, but young may not be viable (deformity) nor survive. Stranger things have happened. I think you are right though, I suspect they may be infertile. :(
 
I have seen a post about similar eggs, but I don't know how they ended up. I'd imagine the reason they are like that had to do with when they were inside her. I bet if you were to disect them you would find that there is a wall between where the 2 eggs are joined and they more then likely just fused together inside the mom. This would mean that they have a chance at being viable, just that they have a smaller space (which could be bad).
 
By the coloration and how soft they are, and they did have a little mold starting to grow on one side, I'd say that they are infertile. The fertile eggs in that clutch looked completely normal quite a bit different than these.
 
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