Was Jurassic Park Right All Along? I Crocodile Virgin Birth I Wild to Know

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Parthenogenesis - virgin birth - isn’t just a myth created for the movies. In Costa Rica, a solitary female crocodile laid a clutch of unfertilized eggs - one of which contained a fully developed fetus. DNA proved it was her offspring. But with no male partner in sight, how did this happen?
Asexual reproduction does exist in the animal kingdom. Snakes, birds, insects, and sharks have all been known to do it. But this is the first virgin croc birth ever recorded, and scientists are studying it for clues about the real-life Jurassic Park. How can parthenogenesis benefit a species? And did dinosaurs also reproduce this way?
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[@terramater]

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[@oneshothunter9877]

Very interesting music video :) Thanks for the content. Always appreciated.

[@terramater]

@@oneshothunter9877 Glad to hear that you like the new video! 🦖🐊🤗

[@patrickbeach9156]

Cool video! Parthenogenesis is super interesting. However, this isn’t exactly what happened in Jurassic Park. The dinosaurs had incomplete genomes so the geneticists used other animal DNA to fill in the gaps. One of the animals used were frogs and Alan Grant hypothesized that they used frogs which can change sex after birth, or what’s called sequential hermaphroditism. Therefore, some of the female dinosaurs changed sex to become male in order to breed in an all female community. One of the most famous examples of this in real life are clownfish, a dominant male clownfish will change sex to female after the dominant female dies or leaves. This still means Ian Malcom was right though!

[@terramater]

Hey Patrick, thanks! 🤗 And yes, you’re on point with your comment! Thanks for sharing!

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

See also: parthenogenic condors, the first dinosaurs that have been confirmed to be able to reproduce asexually!

[@terramater]

Thanks for sharing, condors are just the best!

[@hunterhq295]

@@terramater Never knew condors could do that, hope it can help them with their rare population

[@SaturnSenshi3105]

Don’t be silly. Clearly, this is crocodile Jesus.

[@terramater]

It's obvious! 🐊🌟

[@extremejoy]

Only if the baby crocodile rose from the dead 3 days later… 😏

[@Ban-zx9se]

Wouldn't it be crocodile mother mary

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

The sound effects in the background were extremely distracting. It's like I'm trying to follow a science lecture in the middle of a busy arcade or casino.

[@terramater]

Thanks for the feedback; we'll pass this along to our sound designer.

[@StyracosaurusLux]

Didn't know crocodiles can also parthenogenesis just like komodo dragons. Interesting!

[@terramater]

Thanks for your feedback! Nature is just awesome, right? ;)

[@hunterhq295]

Was a thing in Jurassic world dominion, Blue the raptor was made with monitor lizard dna which can clone itself

[@blunzengrostl5899]

Oh holy mother Crocodile Mary be with us! XD Really interesting topic!

[@terramater]

Amen 🌟

[@el-jp3xp]

​@terramater it's not funny to hurt some of 'ours' religious sentiment... if you spine try hurting other religions then will know the burn,such pathetic ppl.

[@Scp716creativecommons]

Croc jesus aint dead, just hit snooze, and waiting fer the right time!

[@terramater]

Slidin' into your feed like 👋🐊🌟

[@riser7795]

is it just me or there are excessive sound effect & music used in the video to the extend that its jarring to the audience?

[@terramater]

The fact that this is the first ever known crocodile virgin birth should be jaw dropping. The sound design is just to highlight specific animations. ;)

[@porumi]

@@terramater still, i think it was overdone and made it really really difficult to focus on the narration. this sounds almost like an instagram reel, not a youtube science video

[@terramater]

@@porumi Thanks for the feedback, we will pass it along to our sound designer. 🔊

[@abhay9577]

I wonder if critically endangered Gharials can do Parthenogenesis as it belongs to the order Crocodilia.

[@terramater]

That's a very good question. Luckily, more and more scientists focus on Parthenogenesis as research topic, so hopefully we will know in the future.

[@Scp716creativecommons]

Likely yes, however; critically endangered species which have existed in the population bottle neck for several generations will only be more prone to the negative attributes of the method. I could be wrong, but i thought I'd read about them getting inbred in the 90s. Going from inbreeding, to cloning... 😬. That would be a species in desperate need of some "wedding of one night" additions to the gene pool

[@alphatonic1481]

Never say never. We might be able to revive dinosaurs someday. I just hope we don't revive the carnivores.

[@terramater]

True that, never say never! 🦕

[@owensmith2137]

They would practically be invasive species as the ear has evolved for tens of millions of years after they where wiped out

[@stevebennett9839]

Nature is amazing.

[@terramater]

It really is! 😍

[@DecepticonScout]

I always believed what Ian Malcolm said. Life finds a way.

[@terramater]

Hi Kyle! I Apparently he was right 😅

[@BiodiWerWieWas]

How bad ass was the zebra shark lady?! 😎 #girlboss

[@terramater]

🦈

[@gsftom]

Maybe none of the boys in the tank were interested in her? Lol 😮

[@joshuaokoro-sokoh2993]

Komodo dragons can do it too

[@jackschmit4696]

But we can find dinosaur DNA, in the amber we shall find insects that consumed dinosaur blood.

[@Jay.B.2046]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@larrylongprong5219]

How many crocodile genders are there?

[@terramater]

In crocodilians the temperature of egg incubation is the environmental factor determining sex. If the temperature is cool, around 30 °C, the hatchlings are all female. Warmer temperatures, around 34 °C, hatch all males.

[@larrylongprong5219]

@@terramater that’s the same with turtles too?

[@TheMightyN]

Jurassic Park never was right about life's complexities for it preaches over the hubris of Man's dominance, controlling something unbounded to our will. Just cherry picking a rare phenomenon--manipulated by human intervention--with one set of birds or reptiles such as this Crocodile specimen only proves this fact. Henceforth, life is being forced to run through multiple steps to ensure the organism survives, whether if it's deemed "Natural" is completely artificial at the moment, and therein, field research is required. Parthenogenesis is the process of asexually reproducing to ensure the survival of a species or provide the organism with some nutrient--there's no indication from Jurassic Park's lore of these animals practicing this ability save for in the secondary franchise: Jurassic World. The _Velociraptor_ (Blue) is able to reproduce through parthenogenesis this is because she is inherits D.N.A. from a Black-throated Monitor lizard. Though specific confirmations from the species aren't yet known, most research shows Parthenogenesis is fairly common within the Varanid lizards such as Monitors. But this is the only visible inclusion we see from the franchise and no other animals. In fact, it's the implication of this ability itself that contradicts Jurassic Park's own manipulation of Frog D.N.A. to fill the sequences in since some species of Frogs also are confirmed to reproduce asexually and even then the notion of non-avian dinosaurs naturally obtaining this survival tactic is something to talk about.

[@gonna_be_the_no_1]

*Don't let the toxic feminists see this video.* 😂