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'Virgin Birth' Ability Discovered in Crocodiles For The First Time Ever
For the first time, scientists have found evidence that female crocodiles can lay eggs without mating, using a strange reproductive strategy that may have its evolutionary roots in the age of the dinosaurs.
www.sciencealert.com
Virgin births have since been observed in more than 80 vertebrate species including in lizards, snakes, sharks, and rays but mostly in captive animals – and never before documented outside those vertebrate lineages until now.
Sure enough, when scientists looked closer still, they began to find examples of facultative parthenogenesis in wild animals, following a hunch that it could be a survival strategy that females adopt when they can't find a male mate, especially in sparse populations on the verge of extinction.
it's over for crocodilecels!
