An Anaconda in The US Has Impregnated Herself And Given Birth Without Male Contact

By KATIE METTLER, THE WASHINGTON POST

Image: New England Aquarium

One of the offspring.

Staffers at the New England Aquarium last winter were setting up for an after-hours event near the Amazon rain forest exhibit when they made an unexpected discovery.

Anna the anaconda - 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms), 8 years old and 10 feet (3 meters) long - had given birth to a litter of baby snakes.

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