https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/05/24/anna-anaconda-got-pregnant-all-by-herself-by-virgin-birth/

Staffers at the New England Aquarium last winter were setting up for an after-hours event near the Amazon rain forest exhibit when they made an unexpected discovery.

Anna the anaconda — 30 pounds, 8 years old and 10 feet long — had given birth to a litter of baby snakes.

Aquarium staff notified the resident biologist, who scrambled into the tank and found three live babies and about a dozen stillborn.

On its face, anaconda birth isn’t unusual. Anaconda have no trouble reproducing in aquarium settings, and the snakes living in this Amazon exhibit were no exception. If left to freely breed, green anaconda like Anna can have dozens of babies at a time, which is precisely why staffers at this Boston aquarium had taken great care to keep male and female snakes in separate tanks.

By design, Anna’s roommates were all female. She had no contact with males.

Parthenogenesis...

I may give it a whirl one these nights! I think I'd be a fun mommy!

Very common among lizards as well, which is how they populate remote tropical islands and deserts.

And it will be common among people if some individuals get their way. (I suppose artificial insemination doesn't quite count.)

If biblical had Mary reproduced without the help of a male her child would have been female, since the egg is always female.

Didn't I see this in that Jurassic Park movie ?

Life found a way.

Yay, three Messiahs!

What if he's transitioning? "It ain't necessarily so," as the song goes.

https://apnews.com/b5e7bb73c6134d58a0df9e1cee2fb8ad

It seems "motherhood" is "an evolving paradigm."

We worked on an unproduced 'X-Files' script where a family of women kept reproducing by parthenogenesis and the town though they were just crazy & loose; but, like any xerox copy, the next generation is not exactly like the original, and the teenage girl was a bit strange and had telekinesis and an overabundance of pheromones that made men go crazy. You can imagine what happened when Mulder got close to her....