Evil German
WiSSenschaftler my aSS! Your darned pets have switched one letter and turned into a pest over here, Yankee imperialist infiltrators in a shell!
I've read about those: In tried and trusted Yankee fashion - as if we didn't already have North American turtles, racoons, squirrels, trout, catfish and bass! -, they have ousted the German original "mirror species" or are in the process of doing so. Darwinism at work, but not like our
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It's nothing new, Jeff Goldblum predicted it in Jurassic Park I - where they only bred female specimen to prevent them from reproducing and he says something along the lines of "
but nature strives for reproduction".
And of course, the female dinosaurs start laying fertile eggs ...
It's not so far from the truth. The London Zoo had a female Komodo dragon a few years back that had never met a male Komodo (much less mated) in her (zoo-raised) life. She began laying eggs. Now that is not unusual because lots of female reptiles do that - the eggs are not fertilized however. Except that hers were - she had fertilized them herself. It's a phenomenon that had been known from amphibians (which are less close to reptilians than birds are), hence the mention of "amphibian DNA implanted in the dinosaur one" in Jurassic Park I, Herr Spielberg had obviously read a book or two about the subject, but not from reptiles, especially ones of that size.
https://www.livescience.com/1259-eggs-crack-open-komodo-dragon-virgin-births.htmlIt makes you think. A Komodo dragon's DNA is closer to ours than a crayfish DNA is to a Komodo (yup, parthogenesis is catching up with us, Jake!). So maybe we'll see the age-old question
"Who came first: hen or egg?" answered in our lifetime in a way we did not anticipate.
I wish Ritchie could clone him-/herself!!!
"Nobody gonna take my car, I'm gonna race it to the grou-ound ..."
"Shucks, and you haven't had your period in how long a time you say?"