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Jesus is doing it again, this time, as a Komodo Dragon<\/a> (PS I heard the Virgin Mary stuck a snake up her puss — unsubstantiated rumor):<\/p>\n

LONDON, England (Reuters) — 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

He said the incubating eggs could hatch around Christmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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