Stingray's mysterious pregnancy could be a shark's tale
Stuck in a small-town aquarium thousands of miles from her natural habitat, a stingray known as Charlotte has lived an uneventful life.
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Stuck in a small-town aquarium thousands of miles from her natural habitat, a stingray known as Charlotte has lived an uneventful life.
Did Charlotte the stingray mate with a male shark or is she reproducing on her own? Either way, employees at the Aquarium and Shark Lab are excited.
Kinsley Boyette, assistant director of the Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO, poses in this undated photo next to Charlotte, a round stingray, in Hendersonville, N.C. The aquarium said
Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO in Henderson, North Carolina has a pregnant stingray that lives in a tank with no males. Experts believe it is reproducing asexually.
A female stingray at a North Carolina aquarium is pregnant, leaving staffers puzzled over how a fish living without a male companion is reproducing.