Christmas virgin birth....fact or fiction ?

[Canuck_Buck]

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Flora, a pregnant Komodo dragon living in a British zoo, is expecting eight babies in what scientists said on Wednesday could be a Christmas virgin birth.

Flora has never mated, or even mixed, with a male dragon, and fertilized all the eggs herself, a process culminating in parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Other lizards do this, but scientists only recently found that Komodo dragons do too.



.....aint she purty ????

[motrin]

I think Buster might of had something to do with this.

[Buster T]

virtual impregnation - happens all the time ...........

[Champlain Islander]

Buster she is coyote ugly even for a virtual impregnation.

[Whitehorse]

I bet a male Komodo Dragon would think she's hot!

When I saw the title of the thread, I was busy forming such a wonderfully cogent & flowing missive regarding the power of an Omnipotent God... I guess it still applies!

[boysda]

looks a lot like sister agnes from second grade.

[Chantecler111]

Once, you get past, the scaly skin, cold feet, claws, bad breath, and long tongue, I'm sure that she is a fine individual.

[boysda]

ORIGINAL: Chantecler111

Once, you get past, the scaly skin, cold feet, claws, bad breath, and long tongue, I'm sure that she is a fine individual.

you had sister agnes too?

[Champlain Islander]

ORIGINAL: boysda

you had sister agnes too?

I hope you are referring to ......as a teacher boysda.

[burniegoeasily]

Thats not an unusual event. Many lizards will go through alternation of generations. From an Asexual stage to the sexual. There are some lizards that are comprised of nothing more than females. They reproduce through asexual eggs. Basically clone themselves.


Some fish can acutally change sexes as needed.


What a crazy crazy world.