'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time ever - The American crocodile had been isolated in a reptile park enclosure for 16 years when she laid a clutch of eggs.

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[–]jerkwad152 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

Watch the baby crocs have some oddly humanlike features.....

[–]P-38lightning 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Born with Monkeypox no doubt.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Watch the baby crocs have some oddly humanlike features.....

Crock-n-socks.

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I pledge fealty to crocodile Jesus!

[–]scornedandsedated 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Jurassic Park 6. Crackodile.

[–]Tarrock 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don't reptiles lay unfertilized eggs?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My Bearded Dragon would lay unfertilised eggies, same like birds.

[–]carn0ld03 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If those eggs fail to hatch, it'll leave people to wonder if the zoologists on this one were diversity hires.

[–]JoeyJoeJoe 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are some species that can reproduce asexually. Parthenogenesis, I think it's called.

[–]fmj77 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It will be a virgin birth if one of those eggs hatches a baby croc. Otherwise, nope.

[–]IMissPorn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For people too lazy to click: None of them hatched. One contained a "fully-formed, but non-viable fetus", though. So not your typical unfertilized eggs, but not exactly a birth IMHO.