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Scientists record first ever 'virgin birth' in endangered crocodile
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Researchers in Costa Rica have documented the first known case of a female crocodile having a "virgin birth." Scientists say when they looked at one of the fetus' DNA they discovered it was created without the genetic DNA of a male crocodile.
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