Komodo dragon to have virgin birth

[firecoins]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/20/uk.komodo.reut/index.html


LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Flora, a pregnant Komodo dragon living in a British zoo, is expecting eight babies in what scientists said on Wednesday could be a Christmas virgin birth.
Flora has never mated, or even mixed, with a male dragon, and fertilized all the eggs herself, a process culminating in parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. Other lizards do this, but scientists only recently found that Komodo dragons do too.

I don't believe in god but I will worship this Komodo dragon. I am writing "the book" now.

[Zygar]

That komodo dragon can kill me with poisonous bacteria and devour my rotting carcass anytime...

[supercorgi]

I for one greet our Dragon Overlords. I bask in their magnificence. Any creature that can procreate with out da man is first in my book! :D

[bluess]

I for one greet our Dragon Overlords. I bask in their magnificence. Any creature that can procreate with out da man is first in my book! :D

Go out to the garden and worship the aphid. She is wise and all-knowing and pops out hundreds of daughters without the help of a male aphid. It is my understanding that they generate males every now and then and thereby mix up the genetic stew.

[senorpogo]

Other lizards do this, but scientists only recently found that Komodo dragons do too.

Does this mean that Mary (and Jesus, I guess) was one of those lizard people that the conspiracy nuts always crow about?

[Merko]

It's the Second Coming of Jesus! Praise the LORD!

(God just made him into a foul-smelling cannibalist dragon to test our faith, of course)

[Darth Rotor]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/20/uk.komodo.reut/index.html


I don't believe in god but I will worship this Komodo dragon. I am writing "the book" now.
If the dragon's name were Maria, I'd suggest you go to Mexico for optimal worship. ;) You might start a viable cult.

Merko, note the incorrect name. I suggest you not fall for false prophets. :rolleyes: Now, if she has seven babies, for the seven heads of the steed of the Whore of Babylon, it might be time to head for the hills. :jaw-dropp Let's hope all eight babies make it!

DR

[Mercutio]

Um...sorry. Flora and I... well... She was young, slim, and green, I was enthralled by her enchanting stories. I see that she kept her vow never to tell; I only wish I could be so strong. Ours was a tempestuous, forbidden love. If cross-species hybridization is wrong, I don't want to be right.

If beauty doth depend on what is seen
And not on half-blind Cupid's errant dart
Then none will ever know my love is green
And none will know the captor of my heart:
Sweet Flora, with the lovely, toxic smile,
Beguiling eyes, strong arms and supple tail,
I would not trade you for a crocodile
Nor monitor, nor gecko--I'll not fail,
Dear Flora, from the island of Komodo,
You and only you, forever mine;
Escape, with me, the fate of star-crossed Dodo,
Share with me a sacred love divine.
With all my heart (and lungs, and spleen, and gizzard)
I'm yours alone, my lovely, hungry, lizard.

[wipeout]

Go out to the garden and worship the aphid. She is wise and all-knowing and pops out hundreds of daughters without the help of a male aphid. It is my understanding that they generate males every now and then and thereby mix up the genetic stew.

I remember reading that aphids in early summer are asexually reproducing, late summer they are sexually reproducing. So it's not just now and then they produce males. It's two waves of reproduction, the first asexual and the second sexual.

[bluess]

I remember reading that aphids in early summer are asexually reproducing, late summer they are sexually reproducing. So it's not just now and then they produce males. It's two waves of reproduction, the first asexual and the second sexual.


Cool! The things you find out while hanging on this forum.

[Skeptic Guy]

I remember reading that aphids in early summer are asexually reproducing, late summer they are sexually reproducing. So it's not just now and then they produce males. It's two waves of reproduction, the first asexual and the second sexual.

Speaking as as male, this makes me feel a lot better. I was kind of worried where this was all going.

[St.Michael]

Virgin Births + Reptiles = David Icke was right all along.

All hail Komodo Dragon Jesus! :yahoo

http://lol.bz/old/raptorjesus.com/resurrection.jpg

[joobz]

If you mate with yourself...
You might be a redneck komodo dragon.

[bluess]

If you mate with yourself...
You might be a redneck komodo dragon.

You just might be a redneck komodo dragon if you yell "Hey y'all, watch this" and then bite yourself.

[/Jeff Foxworthy mode]

[Tricky]

Go out to the garden and worship the aphid. She is wise and all-knowing and pops out hundreds of daughters without the help of a male aphid. It is my understanding that they generate males every now and then and thereby mix up the genetic stew.
Also true of tiny crustaceans known as "water fleas (http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/biodiversity/invert/daphnia.html)" (genus Daphnia).

However, Komodo Dragons do not give birth. They lay eggs.

[Tricky]

Um...sorry. Flora and I... well... She was young, slim, and green, I was enthralled by her enchanting stories. I see that she kept her vow never to tell; I only wish I could be so strong. Ours was a tempestuous, forbidden love. If cross-species hybridization is wrong, I don't want to be right.

If beauty doth depend on what is seen
And not on half-blind Cupid's errant dart
Then none will ever know my love is green
And none will know the captor of my heart:
Sweet Flora, with the lovely, toxic smile,
Beguiling eyes, strong arms and supple tail,
I would not trade you for a crocodile
Nor monitor, nor gecko--I'll not fail,
Dear Flora, from the island of Komodo,
You and only you, forever mine;
Escape, with me, the fate of star-crossed Dodo,
Share with me a sacred love divine.
With all my heart (and lungs, and spleen, and gizzard)
I'm yours alone, my lovely, hungry, lizard.

That was totally gizzard-wrenching. Nominated.

[firecoins]

However, Komodo Dragons do not give birth. They lay eggs.
There you go ruining it for me. Now what I am I suppossed to believe?
:confused:

[firecoins]

I can't find the link but an image of Charles Darwin appeared in the tree near the komodo dragon. The image of Charles Darwin is crying real tears! Worshippers around the world are flocking to London right now!

[bluess]

I can't find the link but an image of Charles Darwin appeared in the tree near the komodo dragon. The image of Charles Darwin is crying real tears! Worshippers around the world are flocking to London right now!

Should they not be walking slowly and with poisonous intent?