Virgin Birth, by Python - (with no mate!)

[seeder]

Thelma the python has a 'virgin birth': Longest snake species recorded producing babies without mating for first time

The 11-year old reticulated python lives at Louisville Zoo in Kentucky

Thelma had no contact with male snakes but produced fertile eggs

This is down to parthenogenesis, a new genetic study has revealed

It’s caused when cells known as polar bodies - which usually die - behave like sperm and fuse with the egg, triggering cell division

Parthenogenesis has been observed in other snakes, birds and sharks, but this is the first time its been seen in the world's longest snake

Thelma produced six offspring that are half clones of herself

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Edited October 24, 2014 by seeder

[Duke Wellington]

Humans can do this do although the chances of it going to full term are extremely unlikely.

We have lost our evolutional edge unlike many species of animals whose genetics are good enough to produce offspring without mating.

[+HerNibs]

Humans can do this do although the chances of it going to full term are extremely unlikely.

We have lost our evolutional edge unlike many species of animals whose genetics are good enough to produce offspring without mating.

We can do this?

Nibs

[scorpiosonic]

It's a miracle!

[EllJay]

Immaculate Conception - The Christ Python.