Put 3 female sharks in a tank and what do you get?

Or more specifically, put 3 FEMALE hammerhead sharks in a tank for 3 years and what do you get?



A BABY SHARK.

Make no mistake about it, IT IS A BABY SHARK.

The sharks were living in an aquarium at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo which is in the United States.

It sparked off confusion, and there were different theories to why a baby shark was born when there were 3 females in the tank and no males were present. Mind you, they were sexually-immature babies when they were caught.

In the end, DNA was used and they found out that the baby shark which had been born only had half of the mother's genes, but no fathers'.

Researchers believe that the phenomenon is what known as asexual production in cartilaginous fish.

Unfortunately, the baby hammerhead shark died because another fish killed it.


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