A 62-year-old python at St. Louis Zoo, laid seven eggs on the 23rd of July, despite not being close to a male python for more than 15 years.
Experts at the zoo are carrying out a series of the test’s trying to figure out how a 62-year-old python laid 7eggs without a male python present.
Manager of herpetology, Mark Wanner, said Asexual reproduction is unusual but not rare for ball pythons. the snakes store up sperm if fertilization is delayed. The birth is exceptional because Ball python stops laying eggs before 60. Wanner said.
She is the oldest snake in history to lay eggs and the oldest snake documented in a zoo. Three of the eggs are stored in the incubator, two were used for sampling and the other two died inside the egg.
Tests are still being carried out to know if the eggs were produced sexually or asexually. The snake has no name but is known as 361003, she came to the zoo in 1961.
