Independent | Submitted by: anonymous "Specimens of the lizard are served up grilled with salad in restaurants of the Mekong Delta in south-west Vietnam, which led to the discovery that it was a species new to science... A study of the lizard has revealed that it consists entirely of females who reproduce by a form of cloning called parthenogenesis... "When we finally got there, this crazy guy had gotten drunk and served them all to his customers"... The scientists hired some local boys to go out scouting for fresh specimens and very soon they had more than 60 individual lizards, all female."