Condor chicks have ‘virgin births’
Nov 25, 2021
2 minutes
WORDS MINDY WEISBERGER
cientists have reported the first known ‘virgin births’ in California condors: two chicks that hatched without any males involved in fertilising the eggs. Researchers recently made the unexpected discovery that the genomes of these two birds contained no DNA from any condor males. This made the two fatherless condors rare examples of a type of asexual
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