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Why Do We Have “Egg Laying” and “Live Birth” Reptiles on Our Planet?

Why Do We Have “Egg Laying” and “Live Birth” Reptiles on Our Planet?

by Joeby Ragpa - Jun. 17, 2022
Why do we have "Egg Laying" and "Live Birth" reptiles on our planet

A lizard that both lays eggs and gives birth to live young is helping scientists understand the evolution ways of these forms of reptiles’ reproduction. Egg laying almost certainly came before live birth; the armored fish that inhabited the oceans half a billion years ago and were ancestral to all land vertebrates seem to have laid eggs. But the rest of the story is far from straightforward.

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