'Ronaldo had been looking slightly fatter than usual': Snake thought to be male has 14 babies in rare 'virgin birth'

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A captive snake thought to be male recently gave birth to 14 babies after almost a decade in isolation, its keepers say.

"One of the students discovered them during a routine vivarium check," Amanda McLeod, an animal care technician at the City of Portsmouth College in the U.K., where the snake is kept, said in a statement Monday ."At first we thought she must have been mistaken.

By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.In parthenogenesis, eggs mature without fertilization by sperm. In some cases, eggs can be fertilized by a"polar body," which is a small cell that forms in the reproductive tract at the same time as an egg cell.

 

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