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Captive snake has virgin birth
- Thread starter Nostremitus
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This definitely makes Jesus seem less impressive in the long run. Like cool you were a virgin birth, reptiles do it all the time.
Even reptiles can walk on water. Either Jesus is a fraud and is not our savior, or he is secretly a reptile.
Even reptiles can walk on water. Either Jesus is a fraud and is not our savior, or he is secretly a reptile.
It's obviously unusual enough to make headlines. In the wild it's harder to detect and document, but in the case of snakes, they're solitary and have a tendency towards cannibalism so there are plenty of opportunities for asexual reproduction.
Best use of this gif ever. Lets retire this gif until we literarily clone dinos.
I remember reading another story about something like this happening a while ago, but now I can't remember their explanation then. I'll just say they thought she had held onto a pocketful of old cum
I kinda figured Jurassic Park made this fairly common knowledge, the "life finds a way" plot point in where they filled in the missing parts of the dino DNA with other species, which allowed them to reproduce.
But "Life" isn't a sentient entity. How does the body of the lizard, shark, etc. know that it has to do parthenogenesis? How does that work?
I don't know what worm you are thinking about, but the common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) are hermaphroditic, and most definitely do have sex.
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I don't know what worm you are thinking about, but the common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) are hermaphroditic, and most definitely do have sex.
Well there's a photo I never want to see again.
Anyway, there's loads of animals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual_reproduction
censor that shit, this is a christian boardI don't know what worm you are thinking about, but the common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) are hermaphroditic, and most definitely do have sex.
The mechanisms for egg production and incubation already exist in healthy female snakes. One possible mechanism for producing a viable embryo without fertilisating the egg is, for instance, to double the mother's chromosomes from the egg, though I don't know whether that's the mechanism involved here. This doubling is a very normal activity within any cell, but tends not to produce viable offspring which is why there aren't a lot of virgin births.
Green anacondas, incidentally, are snakes that incubate and hatch their young inside the body and possess a placenta. This is a rare and only recently confirmed trait. Most other reptiles lay their eggs externally, though some snakes are ovoviviparous, which means they incubate the egg inside the body cavity but do not have a placenta.
No, by normal I mean aren't they one of the very few species of snakes capable of parthenogenesis? If so, I mean it's not surprising but I guess this isn't common knowledge.
Actually, since that is a snake, I'd say it's Satan reborn. However Trump is 72 years old so no.
I didn't know that this kind of slut shaming was allowed on this forum.
how dare you call that snake a slut? she's just a snake with human traits.
