"Boa Constrictors Can Have Babies Without Mating, New Evidence Shows"

[Bellabob]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1103111210.htm

Very cool!!

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

That is pretty cool. There is also a female Burmese at a zoo which had laid multiple clutches and babies hatched but she was never introduced to a male. It's the same scenario. All babies were female and exact clones of the mom.

[Sammy412]

It's called parthogenesis, and it can happen in a range of species.

[jsmorphs2]

How crazy would it be if a female snow boa gave birth to a whole litter of female snows .

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

That would be amazing

[Krynn]

Interesting article.. Im amazed that it produced WW females though, i thought that was lethal.
Even in humans, YY would be lethal without the x chromosome. I am curious to see if her children are fertile.

[mainbutter]

Really neat. Like Krynn, I'm super weirded out by not only producing WW females, but producing ONLY WW females.. I'm just as interested to know if they are fertile.

I would have thought that snake parthenogenesis would produce ZW females, ZZ males, and WW slugs. Parthenogenesis itself sounds evolutionarily beneficial, but much more so if males were born.

Really neat, thanks for sharing.