Hard to believe: Woman gives birth to a lizard?

17 June, 2014

You may believe it or you may not. A 31-year old Indonesian woman has reportedly given birth neither a boy nor a girl, but a lizard.

The woman namely Debi Nubatonis in a remote Indonesian village of Oenunto, after her eight month long pregnancy, gave birth to the gecko as claimed by the the midwife, who went to assist in the delivery, as there was no time left to take Nubatonis to a hospital, as reported by Deccan Chronicle.

The entire incident reportedly took place in the month of May 2014. However, now people in the village have been accusing Nubatonis of practising witchcraft. And now the entire debate on this controversial birth has gone into Internet.

However, the scientists have rejected Nubatonis’ claims, saying that, till now there never have been reports of an organism from one species giving birth to an organism from a different species all together. Teams of researchers have been sent to the village to investigate the case.

As quoted by India Today, Dr Messe Ataupa, Chief Medical Officer of nearby Kupang city while refuting the claims made by the midwife and Nubatonis said that it was just a phantom pregnancy or pseudocyesis where there was never a child although the woman would have had many of the symptoms.

He further said, “There might have been some discharge during 'birthing' which could have landed on the lizard leading to the confusion and belief that the woman had given birth to a gecko."