A shark was born in a pond inhabited only by females

The network was revolutionized after the announcement of the birth of a shark in a basin inhabited only by females. As we knew, this would be the first time that an event of this type would occur in this species, so many Internet users were surprised.

The event that shocked everyone happened in the Cala Gonone aquarium in Sardinia, Italy. There, two female smooth sharks have lived together for over a decade without the presence of a male shark.

The images broadcast by Newsflash they make scientists think that there may be a unique event for this species: asexual reproduction.

According to experts, the baby nicknamed ‘Wait‘by the aquarium staff, it is in fact a clone of his mother. They detailed that it all happened by parthenogenesis: an embryo born from an egg that was not fertilized by the male and, therefore, the newborn is essentially a “clone“From the parent.

This type of asexual reproduction rarely occurs in females who are unlikely to find a partnerEither because they are threatened with extinction or because there is simply no potential father. This type of reproduction occurs in species such as certain reptiles, fish and even birds.

Video from YouTube @Zenger.

Before this case, others like births by self-cloning cap shark, black tip shark and zebra shark.

Although everyone is waiting for this news, we will have to wait for the results of the DNA samples that marine biologists from Cala gonone were sent to a laboratory to confirm or refute this hypothesis of parthenogenesis.

However, on social networks, especially on Twitter, Internet users celebrated this unique event and some even took it with humor. “How nice that sharks don’t need males not even to have their young,” “who said that the male was indispensable” and “nature is wise” were some of the messages that triggered the news.