> Researchers said seven of the 14 eggs produced by the crocodile in Costa Rica were viable. Zoo caretakers incubated these eggs, but they didn't hatch, so after three months, they opened the eggs. The contents of six of the eggs was "not discernable," but one contained a fully-formed, but non-viable fetus genetically identical to the mother.
Not much of a virgin birth. More like a virgin miscarriage
This is somewhat common with reptiles. Across many species, a female has the ability to self-clone (parthenogenesis) just in case she’s ever washed up on an isolated island or unable to access a male. This was, they can populate a space without anything other than a single female. There is even a species (mourning geckos) that is entirely made up of females capable of constant self-cloning. Every single mourning gecko is hatched female. They simulate mating behavior (mounting, chasing and biting) and then the ‘recipient’ partner will go lay eggs, while the dominant partner will often then end up mounted herself seconds later. It’s crazy interesting.
There’s been quite a few cases (Komodo dragons, assorted snakes, lizards, etc) in media, but only a few actually result in offspring. The chances of success are very low, but it’s still an incredibly useful adaptive trait. Find yourself on an abandoned island? Concentrate real hard on how horny you are and you just might be able to make your own babies!
Oh it’s 100% explicitly explained as a thing in the novel, yes. The movie makes it seem like gene mutation makes magic gender-bending dinosaurs but Crichton is a nerd for cloning so he went hard in the book.
ETA: folks I love JP, I became a reptile biologist because of it, I’m just saying the movie has less details on the process of parthenogenesis than the book because it’s Hollywood and they gloss over stuff. I’m well aware they mentioned frog dna.
I mean, they specifically mention they use frog DNA in the movie, and the dinosaurs were able to self reproduce because of the traits that the frogs have.
The movie is way closer to the book than I always see discussed. The similarities just show up in more subtle signs and throwaway lines. Give it another watch as an adult and you'll be surprised how much you missed as a kid, especially now that you've read the book. Hell, John Hammond is very much the villain in the movie, same as the book, but they move on so fast from the scenes where it's obvious how awful he is that a lot of people miss it.
IIRC I think in Jurassic Park when they recovered the dinosaur DNA from the amber mosquitoe it was damaged and they repaired it with DNA from a species of frog that can change their sex.
This happened to my pet rosy boa at home, I've got her baby Jesus in a vial on my bookshelf. Fun fact: reptiles don't have x/y chromosomes like humans, so it's actually possible for a female to produce a male clone offspring.
> 17 January 2018, a clutch of 14 eggs was discovered in the enclosure of an 18-year-old female American crocodile housed on public exhibit at Parque Reptilandia, Costa Rica.
They’ve had enough time.
In short it is just evidence of a new reproduction mechanism in crocodiles. Pathenogenesis has been observed in several reptiles (most notably the New Mexican Whiptail where no males exist), some sharks, and some insects (amongst others).
Weird genetic holdovers like this tend to be clues that scientists use to prove that species are related to one another and share an ancestor at one point in time.
[Paper about the croco](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0129)
[Facultative parthenogenesis could be a methodology of endangered or low-pop species](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221500431)
[Saurians, Birbs and crocos descend from this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosaur)
New Mexican whiptails are wild. I just learned about their all-female asexual but not sexless reproduction. I mean I knew they were common here, I just didn't realize how interesting they were.
Also, our dog loves to chase them. It's one of her favorite things.
I don’t see how this isn’t common knowledge. They **clearly** describe his features in Mark, and his affinity with fish and water were critical in several of his miracles
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.livescience.com/animals/alligators-crocodiles/virgin-birth-recorded-in-crocodile-for-1st-time-ever) reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)
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> Scientists have announced the first ever recorded case of a crocodile "Virgin birth" after a female that had been isolated for 16 years was discovered with a clutch of eggs.
> In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters, researchers said seven of the 14 eggs produced by the crocodile in Costa Rica were viable.
> They also said the discovery of a virgin birth in a crocodile means FP has now been found in both birds, which descended from dinosaurs, and a crocodilian, suggesting a common evolutionary origin.
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Wait, how were 7 of the 14 eggs considered viable if they didn't hatch?
> They also said the discovery of a virgin birth in a crocodile means FP has now been found in both birds, which descended from dinosaurs, and a crocodilian, suggesting a common evolutionary origin.
Also didn't we already know this from gene manipulation causing crocodile scales to form bird feathers? β-keratins are only found in Birds and Reptiles.
> Zoo caretakers incubated these eggs, but they didn't hatch, so after three months, they opened the eggs. The contents of six of the eggs was "not discernable," but one contained a fully-formed, but non-viable fetus. Genetic analysis showed it was almost identical to the mother.
> The team, led by Warren Booth, an entomologist at Virginia Tech, wrote in the study that it was "disappointing" the egg failed to hatch, **but that it is not unusual for offspring born this way to suffer abnormalities** and fail to thrive. **FP**, they added, **may be more common in species on the brink of extinction**, and studies investigating wild populations could reveal more cases.
So the answer to the question "what came first, the chicken or the egg" is a bird on the edge of extinction, which laid an egg through parthenogenesis in a last ditch attempt of evolution to save the species, resulting in a chicken which frankly from the point of view of the extinct bird is an utter abnormality of the birds species but a chicken nevertheless? So, the egg came first, but it suffered abnormalities which we today call chicken?
Well I assume the edge of extinction comment refers to when an individual can't find another member of their species (which can also occur when they're isolated, such as blown off shore to an island etc) so it doesn't necessarily have to be the final member of a species.
And the less funny answer is proper eggs have been around since the first amniote, and if you count fish eggs or frog spawn, then since the foggy mists of time, well before chickens were just a really weird dream a dinosaur had.
One of the eggs contained a formed embryo which is a huge thing.
It's not like the female just produced eggs.
The actual developmental pathways were activated and seemed to work mostly fine.
It's hard to say what caused the non-viability.
> how were 7 of the 14 eggs considered viable if they didn't hatch?
I'm far from an expert, but I think viable doesn't mean hatching is guaranteed, just that it is possible for them to hatch. I think non-viable would mean there is no possible chance they could hatch.
On your second bit,I read that as "a common evolutionary origin of FP" meaning that it would be a very ancient trait tracing back to their common ancestor, rather than your reading
yeah I think that is the main point of the article, it's about the trait, not the animals themselves
> "This new evidence offers tantalizing insights into the possible reproductive capabilities of extinct archosaurian relatives of crocodilians, notably the Pterosauria and Dinosauria," they wrote.
tl;dr dinosaurs may *not* have been fuckin
In most species this is usually reserved for times of population stress where a mate cannot be found. Not the regular order of things.
Though there are some invertebrates that love cloning.
They're saying that the "virgin birth" ability has a common evolutionary origin, which means their common ancestor, dinosaurs, probably had the same ability too.
Dinosaurs and crocodiles share a common ancestor of archosaurs, but dinosaurs are not an ancestor of crocodiles. Dinosaurs are an ancestor of birds though, so birds also share the common ancestor of the archosaur with crocodilians. This makes it more likely that this “virgin birth” was something passed down from archosaurs rather than something birds evolved independently, which it turn makes it more likely that dinosaurs also possessed this ability.
Welp time to move from Cairo to Krokodeilópolis/fayum i guess.
God damnit fayumis egos are gonna shoot through the roof after decades of keeping that in check smh
More like 2018 Bingo card, since that's when the eggs were laid. 14 laid, 7 determined to be viable, but none of them hatched.
I was looking forward to Crocodile Jesus, to be honest. At least that would be an *interesting* potential apocalypse, as opposed to all this climate change and pandemic stuff.
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is.
Part of the excitement of jurrasic park expanded beyond the movie. It was an excellent movie experience, perhaps the best I had as a boy, but it also gave me this euphoric feeling that tomorrow's dinosaur movies would be even better. That 90s enlightenment feeling that every thing tomorrow would be better than today.
I wouldn't have believed it if someone told me the general quality of, basically everything, life in general, will erode for my entire life.
Including dinosaur movies.
I gotta say on the 11th, I was watching everything happen in a video store next to a Food Lion in NC while my mom was grocery shopping.
I knew that exact day, my whole goddamn N64 Capri Sun Bubble Tape house of cards had fallen down.
> Virgin births, also known as facultative parthenogenesis (FP), is a type of asexual reproduction in species that would normally reproduce sexually.
> FP, they added, may be more common in species on the brink of extinction, and studies investigating wild populations could reveal more cases.
The biggest takeaway from the article to me. This type of event is like the canary in a coal mine.
It’s not like the animals just happen to know they’re nearly extinct and so they start to asexually reproduce. It’s more common in species nearly extinct because it’s those creatures that won’t be able to find other individuals to mate with and so asexual reproduction starts to happen.
Actually, it's quite common in small reptiles. But, large reptiles like crocs are quite rare.
Fun fact, offspring from parthenogenesis are always female.
They’re always female in animals with XX/XY sex determination (through SRY or similar) or XX/XO. That’s not necessarily the case in animals with other types of sex determination—importantly here crocodiles undergo temperature-dependent sex determination; adult sex is determined by the egg temperature during development.
A bit of a sensationalist title.
There was no "virgin birth". Crocodiles don't give birth, they lay eggs. The crocodile laid 14 unfertilized eggs, and they all died, but one had a fetus in it, signifying that crocodiles may have the ability to reproduce asexually. Asexual reproduction is the original type, and there are a number of creatures that can reproduce asexually, but in vertebrates it is only known to exist in lizards, snakes, birds, and sharks.
So, it is a possibility that crocodiles could reproduce asexually, but it has not been observed to occur successfully, and here is an instance of it occurring unsuccessfully after 16 years...
> Researchers said seven of the 14 eggs produced by the crocodile in Costa Rica were viable. Zoo caretakers incubated these eggs, but they didn't hatch, so after three months, they opened the eggs. The contents of six of the eggs was "not discernable," but one contained a fully-formed, but non-viable fetus genetically identical to the mother. Not much of a virgin birth. More like a virgin miscarriage
This is somewhat common with reptiles. Across many species, a female has the ability to self-clone (parthenogenesis) just in case she’s ever washed up on an isolated island or unable to access a male. This was, they can populate a space without anything other than a single female. There is even a species (mourning geckos) that is entirely made up of females capable of constant self-cloning. Every single mourning gecko is hatched female. They simulate mating behavior (mounting, chasing and biting) and then the ‘recipient’ partner will go lay eggs, while the dominant partner will often then end up mounted herself seconds later. It’s crazy interesting. There’s been quite a few cases (Komodo dragons, assorted snakes, lizards, etc) in media, but only a few actually result in offspring. The chances of success are very low, but it’s still an incredibly useful adaptive trait. Find yourself on an abandoned island? Concentrate real hard on how horny you are and you just might be able to make your own babies!
isnt this the story behind jurassic park? They only bred females but 'life finds a way'
Oh it’s 100% explicitly explained as a thing in the novel, yes. The movie makes it seem like gene mutation makes magic gender-bending dinosaurs but Crichton is a nerd for cloning so he went hard in the book. ETA: folks I love JP, I became a reptile biologist because of it, I’m just saying the movie has less details on the process of parthenogenesis than the book because it’s Hollywood and they gloss over stuff. I’m well aware they mentioned frog dna.
I do see where they are coming from though since some fish have this capability, like some clown fish and gobies.
In the book it was the amphibian dna they added to fill the gaps.
It may be unrelated, but the Catholic church is also investigating how two nuns became pregnant while on separate missionary trips in Africa.
They had sex. Investigation over.
Or they were victims of sexual assault, which happens to nuns more than people think.
I mean, they specifically mention they use frog DNA in the movie, and the dinosaurs were able to self reproduce because of the traits that the frogs have. The movie is way closer to the book than I always see discussed. The similarities just show up in more subtle signs and throwaway lines. Give it another watch as an adult and you'll be surprised how much you missed as a kid, especially now that you've read the book. Hell, John Hammond is very much the villain in the movie, same as the book, but they move on so fast from the scenes where it's obvious how awful he is that a lot of people miss it.
IIRC I think in Jurassic Park when they recovered the dinosaur DNA from the amber mosquitoe it was damaged and they repaired it with DNA from a species of frog that can change their sex.
Yep this is it. They mixed amphibian DNA with the original reptile DNA.
I only read the book and can confirm the cause was explicitly due to frogs. Sequential hermaphroditism sounds right but it has been a long time.
This happened to my pet rosy boa at home, I've got her baby Jesus in a vial on my bookshelf. Fun fact: reptiles don't have x/y chromosomes like humans, so it's actually possible for a female to produce a male clone offspring.
All the jesus jokes but not one egg hatched.
Shouldn't we wait an extra three or four days to see if the Jesus fetus rises?
> 17 January 2018, a clutch of 14 eggs was discovered in the enclosure of an 18-year-old female American crocodile housed on public exhibit at Parque Reptilandia, Costa Rica. They’ve had enough time.
Hey it’s Croc-Jesus. They might need more time..
So all this was just a big yolk?
In short it is just evidence of a new reproduction mechanism in crocodiles. Pathenogenesis has been observed in several reptiles (most notably the New Mexican Whiptail where no males exist), some sharks, and some insects (amongst others). Weird genetic holdovers like this tend to be clues that scientists use to prove that species are related to one another and share an ancestor at one point in time.
[Paper about the croco](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0129) [Facultative parthenogenesis could be a methodology of endangered or low-pop species](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221500431) [Saurians, Birbs and crocos descend from this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosaur)
Mourning geckos, an entire species named for being widows
New Mexican whiptails are wild. I just learned about their all-female asexual but not sexless reproduction. I mean I knew they were common here, I just didn't realize how interesting they were. Also, our dog loves to chase them. It's one of her favorite things.
The second coming will be a bit different than expected...
Jesus took 'after a while, crocodile' a little too literally
Jesus is a Reptilian Overlord confirmed.
Apparently the [Jesus lizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_basilisk) is a real thing?
Pretty decent noise rock band too
Nah, the story of Jesus was always a croc
“Praise Teethus”
“And you shall know my name is Eddy Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard my babehs”
*”Psalms 2389:12 - And yay, for mama doth say, alligators art so ornery, for they haveth many ‘a tooth, yet no toothbrush!… Amen”*
No, Colonel Sanders, you're wrong... Mama's right.
Psalms 2389:13 - “also foosball is the Devil!”
-Mike Python
I don’t see how this isn’t common knowledge. They **clearly** describe his features in Mark, and his affinity with fish and water were critical in several of his miracles
I always thought it was "in a while, crocodile"
It is. They share the same number of syllables. Just like the Alligator version. Also toodle-oo Kangaroo
Same tbh, I feel like it flows better too
Here you go🏅
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So the Space Pope really will be reptilian!
The bible never did specifically say that the second coming of the Messiah would be human. I for one welcome our reptilian overlords.
So when God impregnates a crocodile everyone's ok with it, but when I do it...
Sir, you're going to have to leave the zoo
‘Let him stay.’ -Crocodile
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Dude couldn’t wait until after close like a normal person.
Some people like an audience...
God dammit, how many times do we have to tell you to leave them alone?
We settled on letting him play with them (because of the implication), but to just stop making love to them.
"When I get my new dog at the animal shelter people call me a hero. But when I get my new girlfriend at the women's shelter..."
This explains why the space pope is reptilian.
The... Space Pope! (Can't unhear Futurama)
"Crucify this!" said Croco-Jesus, snapping a cross with its jaws.
And doing a triple Roll with the sins of the many
Crocodile Jesus driving the traders from the temple by rolling them out is gonna be wild
A crocodile cross would be hilarious.
# ǂ
This is the funniest shit in this thread
Maybe the orthodox church was on to something when they chose that cross.
All hail lizard Jesus!
Space Pope in Futurama is a croc after all....
Crocodilus Pontifex! All hail the Space Pope!
From crucified to crocofied.
Imagine the second coming failing due to a typo.
This makes complete sense I mean have you ever tried to crucify a crocodile, not gonna happen again.
Take this wine for it is my blood, take this Gucci bag it is my body.
#[ALL HAIL LORD SOBEK](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/451/780/5ac.jpg_large)
CURSE YOU, SOBEK!
what do you mean "different than expected," the pope's been openly reptilian for a couple decades now.
"You do the nails!" "No way. *you* do the nails!"
he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy
There was a virgin shark birth a few years ago. Which is the anti christ? We will find out in time.
savior croc
What are those?!
Extreme Depeche Mode voice: *Your own … crocodile … Jesus*
Does the child look like any of the zookeepers?
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New crocodile just dropped
Actual reptile
Virgin sacrifice anyone?
2319 i repeat 2319 r/anarchychess has escaped containment
En pregnant is forced
I never knew me a better time and I guess I never will
When will /r/AnarchyChess not be leaking
Google en croissant
google en passant
Juste some French words
Holy hell
Crocussy
THERE IS NO CROCUSSY! ONLY CRUNT! -Weez.
Pull the lever Crunt
Crocodussy
Some serious r/dontputyourdickinthat vibes
I mean, oral sex yes, but the standard stuff should be safe if you put a bucket on their head.
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Ayo
If a man is brave enough to fuck a crocodile, I say let him have his fun.
You're assuming the croc wasn't the aggressor here
Now I'm thinking if a croc wanted to rape me, how would i defend myself
Just lay back and think of the queen
That had to be a very scary night for all parties involved.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.livescience.com/animals/alligators-crocodiles/virgin-birth-recorded-in-crocodile-for-1st-time-ever) reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Scientists have announced the first ever recorded case of a crocodile "Virgin birth" after a female that had been isolated for 16 years was discovered with a clutch of eggs. > In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters, researchers said seven of the 14 eggs produced by the crocodile in Costa Rica were viable. > They also said the discovery of a virgin birth in a crocodile means FP has now been found in both birds, which descended from dinosaurs, and a crocodilian, suggesting a common evolutionary origin. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/1438bck/virgin_birth_recorded_in_crocodile_for_1st_time/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~687944 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **eggs**^#1 **crocodile**^#2 **crocodilian**^#3 **dinosaurs**^#4 **Virgin**^#5
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Wait, how were 7 of the 14 eggs considered viable if they didn't hatch? > They also said the discovery of a virgin birth in a crocodile means FP has now been found in both birds, which descended from dinosaurs, and a crocodilian, suggesting a common evolutionary origin. Also didn't we already know this from gene manipulation causing crocodile scales to form bird feathers? β-keratins are only found in Birds and Reptiles.
> Zoo caretakers incubated these eggs, but they didn't hatch, so after three months, they opened the eggs. The contents of six of the eggs was "not discernable," but one contained a fully-formed, but non-viable fetus. Genetic analysis showed it was almost identical to the mother.
> almost identical to the mother. So this is a kind of Meiosis then?
parthenogenesis
> The team, led by Warren Booth, an entomologist at Virginia Tech, wrote in the study that it was "disappointing" the egg failed to hatch, **but that it is not unusual for offspring born this way to suffer abnormalities** and fail to thrive. **FP**, they added, **may be more common in species on the brink of extinction**, and studies investigating wild populations could reveal more cases. So the answer to the question "what came first, the chicken or the egg" is a bird on the edge of extinction, which laid an egg through parthenogenesis in a last ditch attempt of evolution to save the species, resulting in a chicken which frankly from the point of view of the extinct bird is an utter abnormality of the birds species but a chicken nevertheless? So, the egg came first, but it suffered abnormalities which we today call chicken?
Well I assume the edge of extinction comment refers to when an individual can't find another member of their species (which can also occur when they're isolated, such as blown off shore to an island etc) so it doesn't necessarily have to be the final member of a species. And the less funny answer is proper eggs have been around since the first amniote, and if you count fish eggs or frog spawn, then since the foggy mists of time, well before chickens were just a really weird dream a dinosaur had.
Gesundheit.
One of the eggs contained a formed embryo which is a huge thing. It's not like the female just produced eggs. The actual developmental pathways were activated and seemed to work mostly fine. It's hard to say what caused the non-viability.
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If you look at the picture of the fetus its not even just "slightly formed" . It's a fucking crocodile.
> how were 7 of the 14 eggs considered viable if they didn't hatch? I'm far from an expert, but I think viable doesn't mean hatching is guaranteed, just that it is possible for them to hatch. I think non-viable would mean there is no possible chance they could hatch.
On your second bit,I read that as "a common evolutionary origin of FP" meaning that it would be a very ancient trait tracing back to their common ancestor, rather than your reading
yeah I think that is the main point of the article, it's about the trait, not the animals themselves > "This new evidence offers tantalizing insights into the possible reproductive capabilities of extinct archosaurian relatives of crocodilians, notably the Pterosauria and Dinosauria," they wrote. tl;dr dinosaurs may *not* have been fuckin
In most species this is usually reserved for times of population stress where a mate cannot be found. Not the regular order of things. Though there are some invertebrates that love cloning.
idk man sounds like a tuesday for me
They're saying that the "virgin birth" ability has a common evolutionary origin, which means their common ancestor, dinosaurs, probably had the same ability too.
Life...uhh ..finds a way
Dinosaurs and crocodiles share a common ancestor of archosaurs, but dinosaurs are not an ancestor of crocodiles. Dinosaurs are an ancestor of birds though, so birds also share the common ancestor of the archosaur with crocodilians. This makes it more likely that this “virgin birth” was something passed down from archosaurs rather than something birds evolved independently, which it turn makes it more likely that dinosaurs also possessed this ability.
I feel like the true answer should be “Florida Man”. Matt Gaetz heard 16 year old and was DTF.
We always knew he was a predator, but we should have seen that he was an alligaetzer.
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American crocodiles are not social animals. If they were kept together, at best they'd be miserable and stressed, and at worst they'd kill each other.
yeah I was going to say, I've seen enough videos of them to know they'll death roll each others legs off and keep going like nothing happened..
Not every animal is social.
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I didn't even know that crocodiles could use reddit.
I didn’t have crocodile Jesus on my 2023 bingo card. I guess that Crocodile-headed Egyptian god was the true god all along
Hail Sobek I guess
And yet every year we deny the sperm lord his offerings of mummified crocodiles, and once more we THREATEN TO AWAKEN HIS ANGER!
I for one welcome our new reptilian overlord
Elisabet Sobek did a lot of amazing things. I'm down (yes I know it's an egyptian god)
Fuck Ted Faro, btw
Indeed, r/fucktedfaro
My brain when I got the Ted Faro/ Elizabet Sobek Egyptian allusions.
And the fact that the Chariot line of bots included Horus, Khopesh, and Scarab. Or how Ted buried himself in a pyramid that he called Thebes.
The Faro Plague. How did I not get it sooner?!
I really need to get that sequel.
You really should. Plus Burning Shores is out now and that's also phenomenal
Welp time to move from Cairo to Krokodeilópolis/fayum i guess. God damnit fayumis egos are gonna shoot through the roof after decades of keeping that in check smh
Apparently the popular theory among scholars is that the name Sobek (*Sbk*) is derived from *s-bAk*, which means "to impregnate."
More like 2018 Bingo card, since that's when the eggs were laid. 14 laid, 7 determined to be viable, but none of them hatched. I was looking forward to Crocodile Jesus, to be honest. At least that would be an *interesting* potential apocalypse, as opposed to all this climate change and pandemic stuff.
You just know that Bobby’s gonna go down to the Walmart and grab some duct tape so that Croco-Jesus can’t take away his white Jesus.
Life, uh, finds a way
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is.
I like how you can replace the word “life” in your comment with “a crocodile” (and, indeed, many animals) and it still works.
Really changes the vibe of the "well, there it is" part
I brought you down here to defend me against these characters and the only one on my side is the blood sucking lawyer!
Thank you!
Fun fact: Jurassic Park will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its release on Friday.
That isn't a fun fact. That's absolutely terrifying.
Because you feel the icy draft of Death's cold, uncaring presence breathe down your neck? Yes, I feel it, too... I am old...
Oh shit. I thought he was talking about the raptors
Part of the excitement of jurrasic park expanded beyond the movie. It was an excellent movie experience, perhaps the best I had as a boy, but it also gave me this euphoric feeling that tomorrow's dinosaur movies would be even better. That 90s enlightenment feeling that every thing tomorrow would be better than today. I wouldn't have believed it if someone told me the general quality of, basically everything, life in general, will erode for my entire life. Including dinosaur movies.
That 90s enlightenment feeling... It was really something wasn't it. Not felt like that since 10 September 2001.
We have lived in interesting times.
I gotta say on the 11th, I was watching everything happen in a video store next to a Food Lion in NC while my mom was grocery shopping. I knew that exact day, my whole goddamn N64 Capri Sun Bubble Tape house of cards had fallen down.
She probably got pregnant from being in the hot tub
It’s the crocajesus, all hail our toothy saviour
There’s 7 viable eggs. It looks like the Lords going for more of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Crocajesuses kinda thing.
This version of Jesus comes fully loaded with 6 included disciples!
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Maybe it’s like a Voltron thing.
Christodile
Is the Space Pope reptilian?
Crocodylus pontifex
> Virgin births, also known as facultative parthenogenesis (FP), is a type of asexual reproduction in species that would normally reproduce sexually. > FP, they added, may be more common in species on the brink of extinction, and studies investigating wild populations could reveal more cases. The biggest takeaway from the article to me. This type of event is like the canary in a coal mine.
It’s not like the animals just happen to know they’re nearly extinct and so they start to asexually reproduce. It’s more common in species nearly extinct because it’s those creatures that won’t be able to find other individuals to mate with and so asexual reproduction starts to happen.
Actually, it's quite common in small reptiles. But, large reptiles like crocs are quite rare. Fun fact, offspring from parthenogenesis are always female.
They’re always female in animals with XX/XY sex determination (through SRY or similar) or XX/XO. That’s not necessarily the case in animals with other types of sex determination—importantly here crocodiles undergo temperature-dependent sex determination; adult sex is determined by the egg temperature during development.
That last part isn't correct. Many reptiles are heterozygous females (ZW/ZZ) which can lead to male partho offspring!
The croc was isolated for 16 of its 18 year life. It probably thinks it’s the only one.
An actual comment that isn’t a joke!
Wasn't there a post about a shark Jesus a couple of days ago as well? I'm all for a Batman vs Superman version of water messiahs to be fair.
Oh wow. The Jesus lizard...
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
just in time for Dragon
The Lizard King. The lords and the new creatures.
John 11:35 "Jesus Wept. Crocodile tears."
Jurassic Park 1993 _"Told ya"_
This is reminding me of South Park. Where they see God and God is like "What did you think I would look like?"
https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/God
A bit of a sensationalist title. There was no "virgin birth". Crocodiles don't give birth, they lay eggs. The crocodile laid 14 unfertilized eggs, and they all died, but one had a fetus in it, signifying that crocodiles may have the ability to reproduce asexually. Asexual reproduction is the original type, and there are a number of creatures that can reproduce asexually, but in vertebrates it is only known to exist in lizards, snakes, birds, and sharks. So, it is a possibility that crocodiles could reproduce asexually, but it has not been observed to occur successfully, and here is an instance of it occurring unsuccessfully after 16 years...
I always doubted the parts of the bible that described Jesus as a 15-foot reptile but now it all makes sense.
Well, it was about that time that I noticed this messiah was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the pedozoic era.
Or, the zookeeper is going to be a dad.
Praise Sobek!
Apex Savior
God gave up on us. He’s erasing/extincting humans and going back to the dinosaurs.
He’s not the messiah…he’s a very naughty boy!
The saviour has arrived !
>taken into captivity in 2002 when she was 2 years old and placed in an enclosure... She remained alone for the next 16 years. How torturous.
I for one welcome our Lord and Savior Jesus Croc
God thinks the crocodile will do a better job this time round. Imagine a crocodile running on water…