Anaconda gets pregnant, gives birth without male contact in US

A female 10-foot-long Anaconda named Anna at New England Aquarium in Boston, US has given birth without any male contact. DNA testing has confirmed that the two juvenile anacondas of multiple birthed that have survived are the product of nonsexual reproduction, the aquarium said. Called parthenogenesis, the process allows a female organism to replicate itself without fertilization from a male.