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Old 15-01-2008, 02:55 PM
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Some sharks can reproduce parthenogenetically - without the intervention of a male.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/sc...in&oref=slogin

I know this because todays Metro has a picture of a white-tipped reef shark in an aquarium in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary which has never met a male but has just given birth to a sharkling ....
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