And a virgin shall be with pup, and shall bring forth a hammerhead, and they shall call his name Elasmobranch which being interpreted is, to beat the gill...
Three female hammerheads in a tank in Nebraska and no males in site for three years. Poof! A pup is born. Realizing that the important part is really the first discovery of asexual reproduction in sharks, I cannot get over the idea that these poor females are stuck in Nebraska and getting no sex.
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It was July 1976.
AP is reporting:
Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs and give birth without sperm from males, according to a new study of the asexual reproduction of a hammerhead in a U.S. zoo.
When did Queens move to Dublin?
And how many of us here had this quote below in their head?
Henry Wu: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
Tsk, tsk, you are assuming they are all heterosexual sharks. If they can do parthenogenesis, maybe they can do other stuff for each other. Or for themselves, who knows? Did their keepers give them any shark toys?
I can't believe I just wrote this. Shark toys.
You got me there. LOL. Do shark toys look like the claspers on a male?