A female lizard turns into a male after the death of her partner

In an incident that baffled scientists, a female dragon lizard turned into a male affected by a state of great sadness that afflicted her after the death of her husband.

The "Akhbar Al-Youm" portal said that this strange incident actually occurred in Australia, where a female dragon lizard in the Sea Life Aquarium in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, turned into a male mourning the death of her partner.

The portal quoted "Science IV" magazine as saying that the lizard's ovary had disappeared and testicles appeared in its place, as confirmed by Tom Fear, the employee responsible for the aquarium in which the lizard lives.

Tom Fair added that the lizard's female organs began to transform after the death of its partner, as the lizard's body had a bony extension, its color began to change, and its weight increased.

The researchers conducted tests on this rare condition that happened to the lizard, and used ultrasound to verify the occurrence of this rare transformation, and the surprise came that the tests confirmed the disappearance of female tissues and ovaries and the transformation of female genital organs into males.

It is mentioned that sexual transformation processes are a source of confusion for biologists due to the scarcity of their occurrence and the lack of complete information about them, which makes it difficult for researchers to determine the reasons for what happened to the female dragon lizard, but the scientists ended up classifying what happened as a biological process that has an important role in the evolution of reptiles;

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