"Groundbreaking Discovery: Crocodile Has Virgin Birth After 16 Years in Isolation"
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Scientists have documented the first virgin birth in a crocodile named Coquita, who had been living alone in a Costa Rican zoo for 16 years before laying a clutch of eggs in 2018. One of those eggs was later found to contain a fully formed crocodile fetus, despite the fact that Coquita had lived virtually her entire life in isolation. The study published in the journal Biology Letters confirmed that it was indeed produced by parthenogenesis, with a genetic makeup that was a 99.9% match for its mother’s.
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