Swim At Your Own Risk: Male Shark Preggers?

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Male Shark Preggers?


It took them 8 years to figure this out? One of the oldest sand tiger sharks in the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk is an 8-foot-long male, which developed an unsightly protuberance on its underbelly about eight years ago. Then some of the smaller sharks got buddha bellies too. Nobody could figure out what was causing this so finally someone had the bright idea to give that shark a sonogram. Turns out it was lumps of gravel in their tummies. Those sharks will eat anything...

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