Virgin Births Happen In 3 Percent Of Wild Sawfish In Florida Estuary
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
A Virgin Birth - parthenogenesis - may be a big deal in human culture but among wild sawfish in Florida it is apparently downright common. A new study finds that around 3 percent of the sawfish living in a Florida estuary are apparently the products of this type of reproduction, the first evidence of this in the wild for any vertebrate animal. read more