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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 12/20/2006 : 15:20:06
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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.
"Nobody in their wildest dreams expected this. But you have a female dragon on her own. She produces a clutch of eggs and those eggs turn out to be fertile. It is nature finding a way," Kevin Buley of Chester Zoo in England said in an interview.
He said the incubating eggs could hatch around Christmas.
Anyone up for starting a religion based on this? Or maybe this is some Illumanati thing...
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
 Posted - 12/20/2006 : 15:35:27 [Permalink]
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IT'S THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 12/20/2006 : 16:12:59 [Permalink]
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Sister Mary headed through the night-time hospital with the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called (Komodo) Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan and Lord of Darkness safely in her arms. She found a bassinet and laid him down in it. He gurgled. She gave him a tickle.
-- The antichrist is born (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
Bolded text added my me. Run away indeed!
A fantastic read. Beg/borrow/buy a copy at your earliest convenience.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/20/2006 : 17:32:53 [Permalink]
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Now that is fascinating! I've never heard of parthenogenesis in any of the monitors. It could explain how populations became estlablished on remote, volcanic islands.
I'll have to keep an eye on the research.
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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