A 62-year-old female python at the St. Louis Zoo hasn't been in contact with a male in decades, but she was somehow able to reproduce this summer.

(CNN) -- Zookeepers at the Saint Louis Zoo were surprised to see their oldest snake coiled around a clutch of freshly laid eggs because she hadn't been near a male in more than 15 years. The ball ...

Snake #361003 at the Saint Louis Zoo has laid a clutch of eggs despite not being near a male snake in decades. The ball python, at least 62-years-old, surely deserves a name after pulling off the ...

Zookeepers at SaintLouis Zoo in the US have been left baffled after discovering that their oldestsnake laid eggs despite not being near a male snake for more than 15 years. The 62-year-old ballpython ...

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The birth is unusual also because ball pythons usually stop laying eggs long before they reach their 60s.

She's one of two ball pythons at the zoo. The other python snake is a 31-year-old male that isn't kept near the female snake. "It was a surprise," Wanner told CNN.

The 62-year-old ball python has not been with a male in over 15 years, according to Saint Louis Zoo.

A ball python at the St. Louis Zoo left keepers gobsmacked when they recently found it coiled around a clutch of eggs after not having contact with a male for at least 15 years. However, it wasn't ...

Zookeepers at the Saint Louis Zoo were surprised to see their oldest snake coiled around a clutch of freshly laid eggs because she hadn’t been near a male in more than 15 years.

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