Rare Virgin Shark Births Reported in Detroit

randomErr writes "Voice of America reported that 'Officials at Detroit's Belle Isle Aquarium say a shark there recently produced three babies in an event they are calling virgin births. The mother, a white spotted bamboo shark has lived at the aquarium without any male counterparts for the past six years.'"

Comments

it's a frickin miracle

[pizza_milkshake]

i say abandon the whole Jesus-worshipping thing... nail those shark babies to a wooden cross and someone'll worship them. not me though. nope.

Busted... damn!

[Anonymous Coward]

Note to self:

Stop sneaking into aquariums and having sexual intercourse with the sharks.

Shark sperms can swim for long distances

[savage_panda]

It's a well known fact that sperms are great swimmers. I think it just swam the distance from the male shark to the lady shark. I was born the same way. My mom had me while my dad was in vietnam. And "little" me had to swim across the ocean like the salmon swimming home. Oddly enough thou, I'm not a great swimmer.

an idea

[pretzel_logic]

This is a milestone. Slashdot is the first to have proof to answer the oldest question.

What came first; the chicken or the egg?

now we can all say, the hermaphrodite chicken!!, lol

Did they have a visitor

[Lars T.]

named Troy McClure?