The Miracle of Christmas

A Komodo dragon is set to give birth any day now. So what, you say? Well, she lives in a zoo where her access to males is restricted, or at least monitored, and is supposedly a virgin. Zookeepers are baffled, but it's not like that sort of thing hasn't happened before. Our virgin pop princess Britney turned mother-of-two seemingly overnight. And there was that other famous case from two millenia ago. But all those are human examples, and our girls know how to get themselves off...but komodos? Well, one theory goes that during animal transfers and loans between zoos in London and Paris, our virgin dragon hooked up with a male...a romance so short that no one seemed to notice, or would admit to peeping in on just such an event. This alleged encounter would have taken place years ago though, so it looks like our dragon either immaculately conceived, or, self-fertilized by storing the male's sperm for years until she was ready to conceive. Let that be a lesson to you fellas out there...you make sure she rinces out nicely next time or you may be getting an unexpected x-mas present yourselves one year.