Virgin birth in sharks!
2008-10-09 22:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asher553http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435603,00.html
Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.
In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female blacktip shark in a Virginia aquarium contained no genetic material from a male.
The first documented case of asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, among sharks involved a pup born to a hammerhead at an Omaha, Neb., zoo.
