sextuplet

The drum line stood beneath a canopy of trees and rattled through rolls of sextuplets, with reddened shoulders glistening.

Sheep usually deliver between one and three offspring, so Erin Fflur McNaught said the arrival of the sextuplets was a "total surprise".

But for Mr. Powell, “working with literally the most interesting data in the universe” to simply find this strange sextuplet is reward enough.

Jon and Kate's private lives were thrust into the spotlight once they landed a television show that followed the pair parenting twins and sextuplets.

They went to Dr. David Grainger, a Wichita fertility specialist, and on Sept. 12, 2001, the couple learned Sondra was pregnant with sextuplets.