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https://www.wral.com/story/miraculous-birth-expected-at-nc-lab-from-stingray-with-no-mate-possibly-impregnated-by-shark/21276941/

An aquarium and shark lab in Hendersonville is expecting a miracle birth any day -- with some exciting new additions.
The Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO in downtown Hendersonville has an expectant stingray named Charlotte.
But this pregnancy isn't just any normal pregnancy -- and because of that, staff thought the swelling they started to see in Charlotte in September might be cancer.
Why? Because there was no possible way for her to have become pregnant -- or so they thought -- as there were no male sting rays in the tank.
However, there are still two ways Charlotte could have gotten pregnant -- and staff won't know which way until the pups are born.
One is a very rare process called parthenogenesis, in which the eggs develop on their own without fertilization and create a clone of the mother.
"We have been doing ultrasound on our ray, Charlotte, since September, when she began to 'swell.' We documented multiple 'growths' internally and initially thought she had a cancer," Ramer said via email on Feb. 1. "I reached out to Dr. Rob Jones, the aquarium vet, and he identified the growths as eggs. We have no male ray. He said there have been few cases of parthenogenesis in rays."
The second possible explanation for Charlotte's pregnancy is more in the "Jurassic Park" arena, according to the aquarium's founder: Charlotte could have mated with one of the young sharks that was added to the tank in July.
"In mid-July 2023, we moved two 1-year-old white spot bamboo males (sharks) into that tank. There was nothing we could find definitively about their maturation rate, so we did not think there would be an issue," Ramer said. "We started to notice bite marks on Charlotte, but saw other fish nipping at her, so we moved fish, but the biting continued."
Brenda said bite marks are an indicator of mating in sharks, as sharks bite during the mating process -- and Charlotte had several bites on her fin edges.
Ramer said Charlotte is carrying up to four pups and could deliver at any time. DNA testing will likely be conducted on the pups after birth to determine whether they are a mixed breed or are, indeed, clones of their mother. Ramer said they anticipate Charlotte delivering around Friday, Feb. 9, which marks the noon moon. She said all updates will be posted to Team ECCO's website and Facebook page.
The typical gestation period in a stingray is 3-to-4 months.

The idea that "no depiction of anything that could considered child abuse, no matter how small or innocuous, should ever be trivialized as a joke" is a perfectly justifiable stance

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Larry looking and acting more like George Costanza now.

To be fair, Wesley is right. It's kinda odd that anyone would attack a children's character on live TV. I don't understand why he did that.

I love Pedro, but he wouldn't be my choice for Reed.

Fahrenheit > Celsius actually

Even Swiftys or whatever they're called is against their queen on this issue

It's publicly available information, get fucked Swift.

Yeah, figured as much. Currently level 42 so I guess I'd better start catching 10 of every Pal in the higher level regions

Sounds like some Final Destination shit lol.

Is there a term or phrase for someone who tries to morally shame people for doing something that isn't a big deal?

The second guy in this video has a good point

"Stop harassing people!"

CArt narc has stans more worthless than him huh.

Who knew

Wow, dat you vegy?

I'm under no illusion that cart narc isn't a troll doing this for attention, but the other people are no angels in my mind either. They have so much pride that they argue for 10 minutes instead of just leaving. They complain they're in a rush or whatever but then refuse to just walk away.

lmao
That is a stretch
Take a break from this place if cart narc is actually some kind of litmus test.

If that guy in the thumbnail is middle aged, then the average life expectancy is 150 years for rich white men