Friday, October 10, 2008

News: Shark born without father

Seems like this is the 2nd documented case of a shark being born from asexual conception (it may happen frequently in the wild). It has no male genetic material. That's pretty interesting... Note that the image below is of a normal shark, the two cases mentioned in the article did not survive. Here is the article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/10/shark.virgin.birth.ap/index.html

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