Have I got to believe in a virgin birth?
Image via Wikipedia The Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska had on display three live female bonnethead sharks . The bonnethead is quite attractive in a lethal hammerhead kind of way. But no matter how attractive these three ladies were, none of them had ever been on a date. You see they lived in a tank, in a zoo. The closest male sharks were, well, unavailable. Sharks, like chickens, can produce unfertilized eggs and sometimes do so perhaps in silent protest at not being allowed to date. But one day the protest became a bit more pronounced when, on 14 Dec 2001, one of these broody sharks went into labor and out popped a baby girl bonnethead shark (yup hammerheads have live birth). Everyone with a 5 th grade biology class under their belt, including all th Image via Wikipedia e world-renowned marine biologists , stood with their collective mouths agape. This, to put it mildly, was new. A virgin shark, who had never as much as held hands with a male, producing offspring. Though ...
