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A stingray named Charlotte is the main character of her own mystery after it was discovered that she's pregnant – with no male ray in sight. Charlotte, who resides in a tank at a North Carolina ...
One North Car o lina aquarium is looking to solve the mystery of a female stingray's solo pregnancy that has sparked confusion. The Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team Ecco is located in Hendersonville ...
Charlotte, a stingray housed in a North Carolina aquarium ... of sharks and rays are capable of parthenogenesis (where a female [can] produce an offspring clone without mating with a male).
The other explanation for Charlotte's pregnancy is crazy. Staff think that the female stingray could have been impregnated by one of the male one-year-old sharks they placed in her tank in mid-July.
Stunned staff at an aquarium believe that their lone female stingray may have been impregnated – by a shark. Charlotte, who lives at the Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO , in North Carolina ...
A North Carolina aquarium says that it has a scientific anomaly on its hands: a pregnant stingray with no apparent mate. Hendersonville-based Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO houses a female ...
captured attention across the U.S. in February when Team Ecco announced she had become pregnant despite being the only female stingray held in her enclosure. Now, says the team, it has been ...
Charlotte, a round stingray, was determined to be pregnant, despite not having a male ray companion for at least eight years. Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO via Facebook A female stingray has ...
Charlotte, the stingray in Hendersonville who became famous ... a rare method of asexual reproduction in which a female can produce an embryo without fertilizing an egg with sperm.
Fisherman Moul Thun, 42, hooked the female stingray, which measured almost 13 feet from snout to tail, near a remote island on the Mekong River on June 13. The next morning, the fisherman alerted ...