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Posted Fri Oct 10 2008: from Reuters:
Virgin shark got pregnant in Virginia aquarium http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1223647202
Scientists using DNA testing have confirmed the second-known instance of "virgin birth" in a shark -- a female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit that produced a baby without a male shark. The shark came to the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach not long after being born in the wild and lived there for eight years with no males of the same species, said Beth Firchau, the aquarium's curator of fishes. The 5-foot (1.5-meter) shark died after being removed from the tank for a veterinary examination, and a subsequent necropsy revealed that Tidbit was carrying a fully developed shark pup nearly ready to be born, Firchau said.
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The ApocaDocs say:
I was going to make a joke about Saviors coming in any species, but then I read that human intervention killed the Virgin and her unborn pup. Ouch. God can't be happy about that.

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