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Rare Virgin Shark Births Reported in Detroit

Posted by timothy on Monday September 23, 2002 @06:03AM from the signs-of-the-something-or-other dept.

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.'"

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Re:Hmm... by Gibbys+Box+of+Trix · 2002-09-23 06:42 · Score: 3, Informative

It says in the write up it was a white spotted bamboo shark. These 600,000+ noobs don't even read the story these days before K-whoring, let alone the article.

HTH.