praise_idleness,

Is this possible but humans? You know, by some weird conditions or something?

SomeGuy69,

Jesus shark, dim dim dim-dim dim-dim, Jesús shark,…

NotSpez,

Jaws Dropping

GenderIsOpSec,
@GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net avatar

how long until we get some sharksonas of our lord and saviour?

TokenBoomer,

Amen. He had returned

PiratePanPan,
@PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Alright who fucked the shark

FunderPants,

Jawsus!

Jackhammer_Joe,
Naal,

and when he came back they denied him

huquad,

Have we checked his midichlorian count?

Morphit,
@Morphit@feddit.uk avatar
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve heard legends of a taco made entirely out of dorito

zaphod,

It’s most likely a she-shark, not a he-shark.

niktemadur,

In this analogy, humans are like Watto, then. Slave owners.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

I mean our track record aint exactly spotless

fossilesque, (edited )
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

If humans met aliens, the first thing we’d try to do is fuck it. Source: Mass Effect

dave,
@dave@feddit.uk avatar

“All female shark tank” is my new band name.

PiratePanPan,
@PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Coming soon on ABC!

Revan343,

It’s only shark Jesus if the baby is male, because that would be a miracle. If the baby is female, it’s just parthenogenesis

AngryCommieKender,

So we need to rebuild the Parthenon?

dumbass,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

Jesus - I said I was coming back, I didn’t say as what.

MajorMajormajormajor,

Life, uh, finds a way.

Karyoplasma,

This is called parthenogenesis and is a known phenomenon, albeit rare in vertebrates. Some species, like the New Mexico whiptail, rely on it (all New Mexico whiptails are female).

Here is a paper from 2007 that talks about parthenogenesis in hammerhead sharks..

DaMonsterKnees,

And with our votes combined, we will push this good scoop to the top! Thanks, friend!

Xavienth,

Interesting fact about the NM whiptail, they still need to have sex to reproduce for some reason, despite no gene swap occurring.

mexicancartel,

Man so jesus was real

Karyoplasma,

Genomic imprinting says no. It wouldn’t produce a fetus that is in congruence with the possibility of life. It could at most start growing and developing, but it would die in the womb. More akin to a tumor than to a baby.

mexicancartel,

Good to know. Didn’t expect a serious reply

oce,
@oce@jlai.lu avatar

How comes it’s possible for a bird or a fish, but not a human? If this article explains why, it is a bit obscure for non specialists.

Gormadt,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

No worries the whole concept of parthenogenesis is a really obscure and obtuse one.

Here’s a SciShow link that does a really good job of describing it in a less obtuse and confusing way.

Caboose12000,

Wasn’t this also like the inciting incident for the original jurassic park movie?

Khanzarate,

Nah.

That one was dinosaurs changed gender to male, citing the frog DNA they completed the chain with as having that potential.

So what was supposed to be an all-female park to prevent reproduction became co-ed and then nature happened.

Caboose12000, (edited )

I’m still confused on the difference

Edit: thank you to everyone who replied, I understand the difference now

homesnatch,

One was direct development of an egg into an embryo, the other was conversion of an animal from one sex to another to facilitate mating.

lakemalcom10,

Parthenogenesis - egg just becomes embryo, no male required

Jurassic Park - one individual turned from female to male and started making babies

Telodzrum,

Jurassic Park’s version is still sexual reproduction. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction.

StalinIsMaiWaifu,
@StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml avatar

No, in Jurassic Park African frogs are used as the genetic gap filler, these frogs (and therefore the dinosaurs) are able to change sex in same sex environents

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

The New Mexico whiptail is also an F1 hybrid. If they go extinct, you can make more by hybridizing a little striped whiptail and a western whiptail. In case anyone thought that ‘species’ was a solidly defined word.

OozingPositron,
@OozingPositron@feddit.cl avatar
Kusimulkku,

F1 hybrid

Plug-in formulas

Simon,

Laugh’s in mule

abbadon420,

Ee ah ah ah

Toes,

I’d like a DNA test to confirm they aren’t half human.

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