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Virgin birth for sharks

Published on
May 25, 2007
Last updated
May 22, 2015

Female sharks can reproduce without having sex, an international team of scientists has found. The team, including researchers from Queen's University Belfast, found evidence that sharks can reproduce asexually by an unusual method known as "parthenogenesis".

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