Thursday, December 21, 2006

Miracle of Birth

Via BBC -

A British woman is thought to be the first in the world to give birth to triplets from two wombs. In September, Hannah Kersey, 23, of Northam in Devon, had twin girls who were conceived in one womb, and a third girl from another womb. Kersey has a rare condition known as uterus didelphys, which results when the uterus fails to fuse during development. The condition affects one in 1,000 women in the U.K.


Via Independent.co.uk -

The world's largest lizard has astonished biologists by being able to produce offspring by an "immaculate" conception without the help of a male. Two captive female Komodo dragons have had virgin births by a process called parthenogenesis, when an unfertilised egg develops into a normal embryo without being fertilised by a sperm.

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