Scientists Discover First Known ‘Virgin Birth’ In Crocodile

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Scientists have just discovered that female crocodiles can produce offspring without males

In January 2018, a female crocodile in a Costa Rican zoo laid a clutch of eggs. She’d been living alone for 16 years.

She produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself in a phenomenon that is known as facultative parthenogenesis or “virgin birth.”

In a study published on June 7 in the journal Biology Letters, researchers said seven of the 14 eggs produced by the crocodile were viable.

Zoo caretakers incubated these eggs, but they didn’t hatch, so after three months, they opened them. The contents of six of the eggs was “not discernable,” but one contained a fully-formed, but non-viable fetus. Genetic analysis showed it was almost identical to the mother. 

The concept may sound bizarre to humans, but according to researchers this type of reproduction is not unheard of across the animal kingdom. This is however, the first time it’s been witnessed in crocodiles.

Yahoo News reports: Crocodiles don’t give birth, of course, but this lone female laid fertile, viable eggs in 2018. One even developed into a fetus containing only the mother’s genetics, but the egg unfortunately never hatched. NBC News sat down with biologist Jeff Corwin to talk about this fascinating find.

That’s mindblowing! It’s one thing to learn about a single-celled organism reproducing by itself (thanks, high school biology), but this is game-changing information about an exotic animal we thought we were familiar with. If we’re being honest, we had to listen to some facts twice for them to sink in!

There was no shortage of comments likening this croc to the Virgin Mary, and we’d be lying if we said we didn’t think of that, too. Even so, we are just so impressed with this Costa Rican crocodile and her ‘miracle’ that we are itching to learn more.

As USA Today explains, this zoo animal had been isolated from other crocodiles for her whole life. Scientists also know that no male fertilized her eggs because only the mother’s genetics were present in the stillborn fetus.

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19 Comments

  1. Chickens are more amazing They can change sex and a hen can become a rooster and fertilise eggs and go back to being a hen even. I’ve seen it myself. I’ve seen hens lay fertilised eggs with no rooster at all ever around them
    But jellyfish are amazing too They can have 16 brains and divide into 4 new whole entities
    The reptilian shape shifters could be very interested in the crocs creation scientifically. They could have a new God.

  2. OVIPAROUS,they don`t give birth they lay eggs.Without being fertilized the eggs are DEAD and were in this case also.Sure the dead eggs would have the mothers genetic code but they never hatch and never will without being fertilized

  3. These must be the same scientists the believe people can change genders and the Covid shots are safe and effective.

  4. When will this tedious focus on j€wish myth obsessions end? Babylon and their genetics lies can go F themselves. Dolly the sheep was a lie. China parading 12 look-alike “cloned” Asian women was a lie. China’s geneticists claiming they cloned the first stem cells in the 1990s was a lie(it was Dr. Bruce Lipton in the 1960s who did it first). GMOs being “equivalent” to real food is a lie. And claiming virgin birth crocodiles is a lie too.

    “Through deception thou shalt wage war.” No truer words were ever spoken by zionists.

  5. ‘SEXLESS’ reproduction must be the wet dream of the satanists who want to take away the natural birthing rights of the people so they can use their procreation labs to usher in the non-fertile transhumans.

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