The whitespotted bamboo shark, nicknamed Little Mary, was given
to the Natural History Museum in the southwestern German city of
Karlsruhe as a gift more than a decade ago. Since then she has become a
bit of a sensation in scientific circles.
In 2001, the small, black and brown shark began laying eggs. This in
itself is no great feat in nature; many animals, including reptiles,
birds and other sharks will lay unfertilized eggs. Johann Kirchhauser,
biologist in charge of the museum's aquariums, along with the rest of
his colleagues assumed the eggs would remain unfertilized, since there
was no male shark in the t
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