Snake Gives Virgin Birth (No, This Is Not From The National Enquirer)

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This 2015 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation shows a female yellow-bellied water snake at the Cape Girardeau, Mo., Conservation Nature Center that for the second time in two years has given birth without any help from a male member of the species, conservationists say. The offspring did not survive this summer, but they did in 2014. It is believed to be the first documented cases in the species of parthenogenesis, or asexual reproduction. (Candice Davis/Missouri Department of Conservation via AP)

This female watersnake, which has not been exposed to male snakes in eight years, has given birth for the second year in row. She is the first known of her species to be able to birth by Parthenogenesis, a type of asexual reproduction. Don’t get too wrapped up in trying to understand the science behind it and just kneel before our new lord, Snake Jesus.

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