Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor

crudmonkey writes "Researchers have discovered a biological shocker: female boa constrictors are capable of giving birth asexually. But the surprise doesn't end there. The study in Biology Letters found that boa babies produced through this asexual reproduction — also known as parthenogenesis — sport a chromosomal oddity that researchers thought was impossible in reptiles. While researchers admit that the female in the study may have been a genetic freak, they say the findings should press researchers to re-think reptile reproduction. Virgin birth among reptiles, especially primitive ones like boas, they argue may be far commoner than ever expected."

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Commoner

[MyLongNickName]

It has a meaning... but not "more common". Sheesh.

"Immaculate Conception" is not parthenogenesis

[Giorgio Maone]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception
Unfortunately most "believers" don't know much about their doctrine nor about their bible.
Otherwise, atheists would be the vast majority and the world would be a better place.