"Milagro" (translation "miracle")

[Bogertophis]

bogie...

this is absolutely insane. and the fact you haven't shared a single picture is honestly on par with the acts of war criminals.

since so many seemed to have developed and survived, is it weird i lean a little more towards the world's oldest retained sperm?

but that wouldn't explain all the other clutches you didn't incubate for years would it? and the one you do JUST SO HAPPENS to produce viable offspring? is there any research on how long retained sperm can be...good?

or is she just the second coming of the Virgin Mary? hahaha.

When things slow down maybe someday I'll try to get into some photography... lol. At the moment I have no way to take, much less share photos.

I just don't know, as far as "how & why they're here"? A recent article posted about a captive solo anaconda that had several offspring was verified to be parthenogenesis, but either way I'm pretty impressed with these. I'd like to find out eventually, but for now, I'm just sharing their story.

As far as "so many that developed & survived" there were SO many eggs produced- I swear these yellow (Florida mix) rat snakes are part-chickens? Some developed but didn't make it out of eggs for various reasons, some of those were more obvious than others as to defects, & that happens either way too, partho or not.

By posting here, I'm hoping that more members post about the longest viable retained sperm they've seen. IF that's what this is, the longest I've seen previously was 5 years-a corn snake I had mated only once but produced viable hatchlings for 5 years...I truly kept looking for the 'off' switch.