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Is it possible to create a hybrid between a cornsnake and ball python? Not that I intend to do such a thing but curious if this is even possible.

On the extremly off chance you were able convince them to mate I'd bet large sums of money they'd all slug out, or at the very least be highly defected, sterility being the least impacting.

Not even possible. In the off chance you even did get them to breed, nothing would come of it. They aren't even in the same family. I remember that someone reported that they got the burmese python and boa to breed. That didn't work either.
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Not to argue for or against this topic, but boa to python cross is different on more fundamental levels. Primarily, boas are live bearers, while pythons are egg bearers. This leads to significantly different methods of temperature regulation and dependancy, waste management, etc.

Again, i'm not saying it's likely that a corn and any python could cross, but it's got better chances than a live bearer crossed with an egg layer.

So you're saying that Cerastes cerastes couldn't interbreed with Cerastes vipera? I don't think it's ever actually been tried (what would be the point?) but the only other difference between them is that one sometimes has horns.
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I wasn't aware any cerastes species were egg layers, but I'd be willing to bet an egg layer crossed with a live bearer would slug out. One side is genetically programmed to exchange nutrients/gasses via vessels connected to several parts of a semi permiable membrane, the other to do the same via an umbilical cord connected to the mother.

I'd say it's worth a try tho.

I take it you are asking this for the same reason I came to this forum to try and find this info?

I couldn't believe it either, which makes me think the rest of the post is bogus too.....I mean, six inches?
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a corn a and ball wouldnt cross for many reasons one being the huge size difference two being one is a python the other one is a colubrid three there are at two different evolutionary points not to mention the climate and habitat differences and the fact that the hemipenises of the two species are very different
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thanks for all the answers. Pretty much confirmed what I suspected from the start, that a ball python can't produce from a corn or vice versa.