How Scientists Accidentally Created A Hybrid Fish
By Marina Manoukian/Dec. 23, 2020 10:54 am EDT
As we know by now, life always finds a way. And that s exactly what happened when, as CNN reports, scientists tried to reproduce Russian sturgeon eggs through gynogenesis, using paddlefish sperm. Rather than reproducing asexually, the sturgeon eggs combined with the paddlefish sperm to create a hybrid sturddlefish, an event, says a paper posted at MDPI, that was completely unanticipated by scientists.
And there isn t even just one kind of hybrid. Two different kinds of sturddlefish emerged out of the hybridization, both bearing different resemblances to their parents.