For every mother with twins the art of telling them apart is a task that can take a lifetime to master. But when Kerry Richardson's sons were born she had no trouble telling them apart instantly.
Layton, who weighed 6lb 4oz, was growing blonde hair and was fair skinned. His brother, Kaydon, who arrived 20 minutes later weighing 6lb 9oz, was black.
"When they were first born, no one really noticed anything unusual as they were both practically the same colour," said 27 year old Miss Richardson.
"But over the last few months Layton has got lighter and blonder, like his dad, and Kaydon has gone darker like me."
The one in a million conception happened after two eggs were fertilised at the same time in the womb. While Miss Richardson is of English-Nigerian heritage the twins' father is white.
According to the Multiple Births Foundation, baby Kaydon must have inherited the black genes from his mother, whilst Layton inherited the white ones from his father.
Now who would have ever have worked that out without the aid of the experts?
... and here's an earlier story
Beautiful twin sisters Alicia and Jasmin Singerl certainly make people look twice.
Alicia has dark brown eyes and complexion, and Jasmin is blue-eyed and fair-skinned. Experts say the chance of twins being born with such different physical characteristics is about a million to one.
The sisters from Burpengary, north of Brisbane, were born in May. Mother Natasha Knight, 35, has Jamaican-English heritage, and their father, Michael Singerl, 34, was born in Germany.
SO, does that make the odds a million to two or half a million to one?
