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Lizard Previously Unknown To Science Found On Vietnam Menu
eldavojohn writes "A lizard long served on the menu in the Mekong Delta has recently caught the attention of scientists when it was noted that all animals in the species appeared identical as well as female. The species appears to be a hybrid of two other species (like a mule or liger). But the curious thing is that this hybrid isn't sterile — it reproduces asexually. The species, known for some time in Vietnam, has now officially been named Leiolepis ngovantrii."
... with fries
Leiolepis ngovantrii, That's a mouthful. And a delicious mouthful too.
welcome our new supreme Leiolepis ngovantrii overlords.
You got a Lizard on the Menu? I had a fly in the soup!
No tip from me, that's for sure. And I'm telling all my friends about this!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I wonder how the world would function if we reproduced asexually (ie 1 gender only). lol
How does it taste?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Science is tasty!
Enlightenment is a pipe dream. So where's the pipe?
Leiolepis ngovantrii yummis
Yes, but how does it taste?
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
It tastes best when fried. It is crispy and sweet, similar to snakes.
I used to hunt these lizards and ate them once in a while but mainly I fed them to my pigs. Back then (more than 20 years ago), few people ate them.
Mystery meat
"What's that? You're selling Iguana on a stick? Give me a second to get another Nuka-Cola out of the fridge first."
;)
Alternative allusion:
"You eat one Iguana on a Stick.
+25 hit points.
Temporary +1 to Science skill"
Motorcycles, Robots, Space Gossip and More!
Be glad we got to see it before we eat it into extinction (too.)
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Usually means unknown to western science.
I'm sure some ancient biologist documented them but it was never translated to English, if written at all. Its hard enough for the casual observer to tell a lizard's gender that nobody even noticed.
Rural people, even western people, see things every day in their environment that they assume is well known, and never bother to document. When noticed "scientists" it somehow becomes a discovery.
Someone "Discovered" America. Those already living in America at the time "Discovered" large sailboats at about the same time. Perspective.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
...may include asexual reproduction.
That's interesting, sexual reproduction is meant to increase genetic variation within a population and adapting to evolutionary changes. An animal that forgoes this process and clones itself to reproduce must of had genetic defects already weeded out from the gene pool at large. It might have perfectly adapted to survive in its surroundings, without experiencing harsh evolutionary demands. If this lizard has been around for millions of years, it might be interesting to analyze genetic variance of individual lizards, and see how many original lines exist within the population. After all if they are clones, it's possible that the entire species is consisted of clones descended from ONE individual! That's pretty rad stuff for the animal kingdom.
A female lizard that reproduces asexually? Sounds more like a lez-zard than a liz-zard amirite? Hi-five!
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(c'mon yer leavin' me hangin'...)
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with the environment. If I saw a chicken cross the road, I would just say, "Huh, a chicken!". But it could be a new species of chicken never before seen by "science" and i would think nothing of it. Just like seeing another lizard in the tropics. "Eew! a lizard!"
Well done. Haha.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Wow, Ian was right again ...
"Flame away, I wear asbestos underwear"
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-delicious-species-discovered,1331/
Cloning does not mean you must be perfect. The clone is genetically just as good as the parent, so you only must be able to live.
The big advantage of sexual reproduction is that you get much more combinations, i.e. you can combine your faults much better and carry around a much bigger amount of faults.
So clones are usually better, but only as long as the rules do not change. Once a fault gets a bonus because it gives you some immunity to some illness, the clones have a hard time, because they do not collect new faults that easily...
there's a crazy lizard Snoo Snoo party going on.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Yup tastes like chicken!
I think I speak for most Slashdotters when I say that hopefully scientists never find out what genes or other mechanisms allow these lizards to reproduce asexually and transplant them to humans. Because if they do, we're never gonna get laid.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
How they found out about this: "Hello waitress i would like lizard with fries, but I'm a nerd so i think i will study it before i eat it"
It featured a mysterious Chinese restaurant in the middle of the Canadian wilderness that served animals that were unknown to science.
It's best watched back-to-back with "Naked Lunch".
Thanks, I'm here all week.
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
Most diners were pleasantly surprised after their meals, when they found out they were saving 15% on their car insurance.
Would be easier to capture specimens if the locals would stop catching them all for food and medicine.
Hanging? You've obviously not seen the mating ritual of 2 Whiptail lizards in Baja California, no strapon required, the one just jumps on the others back to "tribulation" until the one underneath is stimulated to ovulate. No other lizard does as the Whiptail lizards. A Mediterranean gecko miraculously conceives with no interaction. More interesting than Whiptails and Geckos, or even the ones in Thailand, are the Knite lizards along the Islands outside of souther California; they bear live young with actual umbilical cords to placentae unlike the egg-shell incubators of other reptiles.
Besides, parthogenesis in people is well known; it stems from the fact that all living creatures are actually in a caste system: the base of the human brain is known as the Archon Center and identical to all reptiles despite reptiles having not the additional brain matter above the Archon Center that makes them man. This is the basis for all complex nervous systems to establish biological footprint of impulse and urge, then the addition is a reciprocal turing effect (man) that allows the former animal to "un-descend" or "ascend" back into a higher character where it's thought process and emotion determine it's physiology and capacity rather than the evolutionary primitives. The same traits are seen that Homo Erectus/Africanus on Africa have a more-developed Archon Center suggesting they are animals whereas Homo Europa/Neanderthal have a less-developed Archon Center and greater-brain matter suggesting they are a continuum of a non-native organization/organism (perhaps Mars, judging by their physiology to seasons of the Mars orbit and rotational day hours difference).e
Species problem
Set your phasers on "funky"!
In a Stripper Restaurant, the soup cums out of the fly.
The New Mexico Whiptail is another lizard in the exact same situation. It's a hybrid of two other whiptails, and reproduces exclusively through parthenogenesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemidophorus_neomexicanus
Not the only lizard only know as a female--the New Mexico Whiptail is also only known as a female, reproducing only through parthenogenesis....
Didn't they tell you it was dangerous to go off your meds?
Do they reproduce asexually too?
Wish I was in
Tijuana
Eating Bar B Qued iguana
file:
Just found a lizard in your Big Mac, sue McDonald and... you know how to do... :D
Claude LaFreniere aka climenole
Wow, you need a different hobby
Dodos.
mmmmm cryptobiology