quadruplets

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A wildlife trust is is celebrating the rare birth of red-ruffed lemur quadruplets.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The arrangement has formally cemented the relationship between Jablonsky and Michelle Zamora’s family of seven — her second-grade quadruplets, fourth-grade son and husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024

They theorized that the atom is actually doing many things simultaneously: scattering not only single photons but also, through an entirely different process, photonic pairs, triplets and quadruplets.

From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2023

And the risk of spontaneous loss for the entire pregnancy is 25% for quadruplets, 15% for triplets, and 8% for twins.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2022

According to his deductions, twins occur once in 88 births; triplets, once in 7910; and quadruplets, once in 371,126.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)