The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:03 am Post subject: Girrrl Power |
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If human women discover how to do this ... it's all over for us guys, I'm thinking. Actually, I'm quaking.
Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone
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A team of American and Irish researchers have discovered that some female sharks can reproduce without having sex, the first time that scientists have found the unusual capacity in such an ancient vertebrate species.
Their report that sharks can reproduce asexually through the process known as parthenogenesis is being published online today in the British journal Biology Letters. Researchers have observed parthenogenesis in certain species of birds, reptiles, amphibians and bony fishes, but the new finding suggests that vertebrates' ability to reproduce without sex evolved much earlier than scientists had thought.
Scientists began their investigation after a female hammerhead shark was mysteriously born at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo in December 2001, in a tank that held three adult, female hammerheads but no males. |
Frankly, I don't think it's gonna catch on. What's the attraction of making babies without actually, well, you know, making babies?
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| "Yes, indeed this is a virgin birth," Shivji said in an interview, adding that this could help explain why other sharks have suddenly been born in captivity, like a bamboo shark that appeared in Detroit's Belle Isle Aquarium in 2002. |
Aigo. Just wait until the Catholics get hold of this. We'll never hear the end of it ...
In case I have to mention for the irony-impaired, the poll is a goof. Just like the rest of it.
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