Virgin Mary: Stingray edition

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Aquarium baffled after stingray mysteriously gets pregnant despite there not being any males in their tanks

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There are two ways Charlotte might have gotten knocked up, but puzzled researchers won’t know which way until the pups are born, the outlet reported.

One is a very rare process called parthenogenesis, in which the eggs develop on their own without fertilization and create a clone of the mother.

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“In mid-July 2023, we moved two 1-year-old white spot bamboo males [sharks] into that tank. There was nothing we could find definitively about their maturation rate, so we did not think there would be an issue,” Brenda Ramer, the aquarium’s founder and executive director said, adding, “We started to notice bite marks on Charlotte, but saw other fish nipping at her, so we moved fish, but the biting continued.”

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