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Snake thought to be male gives 'miracle' birth to 14 babies
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0:41Now PlayingA Brazilian rainbow boa, which was thought to be male and had no contact with other snakes for nearly a decade, gave birth to 14 babies at England’s City of Portsmouth College in what's described as a "miracle birth."
It's an "extremely rare phenomenon of parthenogenesis, a natural form of asexual reproduction in which embryos develop without fertilisation," the college said.
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