Friday, October 10, 2008

The Virgin Birth...of a Shark


Scientists studying sharks at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach, VA, have confirmed that a female blacktip shark gave birth to a pup without any help from a male shark. Read the complete AP story at CNN...


Apparently, however, in the shark world, virgin births are yawned at. National Geographic published a story over six years ago about the same thing happening at a Detroit aquarium involving a white spotted bamboo shark, who at that time gave birth to not one, but two babies all by her lonesome.

Who knew sharks were so talented?

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