Who’s your daddy?
Researchers in North Carolina say something’s fishy about the pregnancy of a stingray at the Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Hendersonville.
The stingray, named Charlotte, is preggers, but the aquarium and outreach center doesn’t have any male stingrays, WRAL in Raleigh reported.
Despondent staffers thought the swelling they started to see in September might be cancer before exams revealed the surprising cause, the dispatch said.
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There are two ways Charlotte might have gotten knocked up, but puzzled researchers won’t know which way until the pups are born, the outlet reported.
One is a very rare process called parthenogenesis, in which the eggs develop on their own without fertilization and create a clone of the mother.
The other possibility?
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