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[–] 35 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

Maybe it's a form of xenoparity like Messor ibericus, where one species is giving birth to an entirely separate species alongside its own.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago*

    Or they're all chimeras, but the frog part is hemizygous (so has to express the gene) and the piggie part is X recessive heterozygous (so has another allele that can suppress the gene), and the gene controls which end of chimeric scale (frog to pig) the body tips

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    I never heard of xenoparity before, this is fascinating.

    Supposedly it only evolved about 5 million years ago, and some colonies still rely on external populations? Nature is constantly finding new ways to undermine our attempts to think we know how shit works.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    First, thank you for pointing this out. I had to go and fill my brain hole with a bunch of information about this absolutely fascinating discovery. I really thought you were discussing some science fiction concept initially.

    Second, what in the actual fuck did I just read?!?

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