World's first self-cloning snake

[Moclobe]

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/030224snake.html

 

[instar]

RE: World

Whoo hoo! C'mon Baby spit em out! parthogenic Darwins? Dreamy!

I'll keep em in the garage with parthogenic flyin pigs, lol. Who'd have thought!

Amazing stuff !

 

[lutzd]

RE: World

Must be true - it's on the Internet!

 

[Jonathon]

RE: World

In Rick Shines book it has a little paragraph about the Flowerpot snake (Ramphotyphlops braminus). Its introduced into Australia and reproduces by virgin birth. Its a small member of the blind snake family.

 

[BROWNS]

RE: World

Whoo hoo! C'mon Baby spit em out! parthogenic Darwins? Dreamy!

I'll keep em in the garage with parthogenic flyin pigs, lol. Who'd have thought!

Amazing stuff !

hehehe puts a new meaning to telling them to go 4letterword themselves :lol:

 

[Moclobe]

here are more links to the story

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...bMed&list_uids=12634818&dopt=Abstract

http://coloherp.org/cb-news/Vol-30/cbn-0311/Python.php

 

[Moclobe]

Re: RE: World

Must be true - it's on the Internet!

while not all info on the net is true this one has been written up in a peer reviewed journal so I feel that there is some truth in it.

 

[Guest]

Worlds first self-cloning snake

Truly Amazing,python swims to new attoll in pacific and starts own population maybe i wonder if retics have the ability,cool discovery!