Jesus' Rebirth...Kinda?
Well, for all of those people waiting on Jesus' return to the world, their expectations could be...sort of right.
Flora is scheduled to give virgin birth to eight babies on Christmas Day this year. Who's Flora? Well, she just so happens to be a komodo dragon living in England's Chester Zoo. But there's a catch—in Flora's lifetime, she has never even been introduced to a male of the species, and therefor fertilized all of the eggs on her own. Other species have been known to do this, but this is only the second case in a komodo dragon (the first was mistaken as stored sperm from earlier encounters with males).
Kevin Buley of the Chester Zoo explained how, one day, komodo dragons maybe be socializing with the likes of inbred dregs everywhere:
"The genetics of self-fertilization in lizards means that all her hatchlings would have to be male. These would grow up to mate with their own mother and therefore, within one generation, there would potentially be a population able to reproduce normally on the new island"
That would either lead to one hardcore case of inbreeding, or a species adept enough to repopulate itself anywhere it damn well chooses.
...genetic tests confirmed absolutely that Flora was both the mother and the father of the embryos. It completely blew us away because it (parthenogenesis) has never been seen in such a large species.
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