Aquarium surprised by ‘virgin birth’ of swell shark in all-female tank
Baby shark Yoko hatched in early January, flummoxing staff and experts at a US aquariumBirds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it, according to Cole Porter’s classic song on the universal nature of sex.But a baby swell shark born in a Louisiana aquarium that houses only females has flummoxed marine experts and raised the possibility that the species may not require such earthly pleasures to produce offspring. Continue reading...
Baby shark Yoko hatched in early January, flummoxing staff and experts at a US aquarium
Birds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it, according to Cole Porter’s classic song on the universal nature of sex.
But a baby swell shark born in a Louisiana aquarium that houses only females has flummoxed marine experts and raised the possibility that the species may not require such earthly pleasures to produce offspring. Continue reading...
