'Miracle' baby shark born in aquarium without male shark
Miracle baby shark born in aquarium without male shark
ITALY (Dunya News) - A miracle baby shark was born to one of two moms in a tank without male sharks.
The mysterious conception took place at the Acquario Cala Gonone in Italy, where the two female sharks resided for the past decade.
The scientist said, “The pup, dubbed ‘Ispera’ by staff at the aquarium, is in fact a clone of its mom — via parthenogenesis, in which an embryo is fertilized by a polar cell, a byproduct of meiosis, when germ cells divide to create either an egg or a sperm.”
Marine biologists at Cala Gonone have sent DNA samples to a laboratory to confirm their hypothesis.
