"Virgin Birth" Seen in Wild Snakes

"Virgin Birth" Seen in Wild Snakes, Even When Males Are Available

Virgin birth" among animals may not be a rare, last-resort, save-the-species stopgap after all.

For the first time, animal mothers, specifically pit vipers, have been discovered spawning fatherless offspring in the wild. More to the point, the snakes did so even when perfectly good males were around.

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Yosof A. Mohammed
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