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JPinMaryland
12-20-2006, 10:44 PM
This might be an interesting folllow up to the discussion Bala and I were having about evolution. Has to do with a Komodo Dragon fertilizing herself:

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/12/20/virgin_dragon_prepares_to_give_birth/?p1=MEWell_Pos5

Show Me the Wire
12-20-2006, 10:47 PM
Holy Jurasic Park Batman!

Overlay
12-20-2006, 10:50 PM
This had better not migrate up the evolutionary chain. According to my wife, it would do away with the last justification for men's existence.

JPinMaryland
12-21-2006, 12:06 AM
While were on the subject of reptiles this blog might have a better explanation for what killed the dinosaurs;


http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/boiled-eggs-dinosaur-sex-ratios.html