Geneticists have confirmed a case of birth without mating in a bonnethead shark, one of the smaller hammerhead species. That makes sharks the fifth major vertebrate lineage with documented virgin births.
DADS EXCLUDED. This infant bonnethead, which had a mother but no father, represents the first documented example of parthenogenesis in sharks.
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