weird animals in the news thread
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by Kelly Tindall » Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:42 pm
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by extremophile » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:37 pm
interesting thread! 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/sc_ ... dragons_dc
The animal itself is not weird, but.. what they found is.... somewhat....
Komodo dragons were found to be capable of virgin birth (which was know to some other lizard species, and some insects at least.... artificially induced in mice once)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/sc_ ... dragons_dc
The animal itself is not weird, but.. what they found is.... somewhat....
Komodo dragons were found to be capable of virgin birth (which was know to some other lizard species, and some insects at least.... artificially induced in mice once)
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by HellboyOne » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:23 pm
That lizard is totally gonna give birth to Komodo dragon Jesus!
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by extremophile » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:52 pm
"Jesusette"...
individuals from this sort of procreation are always females. Or at least, in the only instances where I know that it occurs (it's due to the female being the homogametic sex, having only the X chromosomes, so it is all it can pass to her solo offspring)
...But theoretically, if crocodiles or turtles were able to lay developing non-fertilized eggs, males could born, I guess, since they have the sex determined by the temperature during development.
I'm the result of many years watching discovery channel.
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by Tracy Fran » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:39 am
The article on livescience says all of her offspring will be male
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by extremophile » Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:21 am
ooops 
perhaps males are the homogametic sex then in komodo dragons... edit: I think that it does not follow, actually... I'm confused...
... to make up for that mistake, another addition... it is not in the news, but fit as weird animal:
http://faculty.uca.edu/~benw/biol4402/l ... sld003.htm
gastric breeding frogs
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by HellboyOne » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:46 am
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by Sebby » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:50 am
I saw this! This was so messed up. There was another item like that a couple of months ago on BBC where a giant snake tried to swallow an alligator and exploded.
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by AgentHelix » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:55 am
That is a hungry, hungry hippo.
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by HellboyOne » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:57 am
AgentHelix wrote:That is a hungry, hungry hippo.
And I heard he swallowed a mess o' giant marbles right before.
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by drugmassacre » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:23 pm
AgentHelix wrote:That is a hungry, hungry hippo.
"And how did it make you feel, to be denied these 'hungry, hungry hippos?'"
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