4. SHARK STORES SPERM FOR 45 MONTHS—THEN GIVES BIRTH
Brownbanded bamboo sharks have a surprising way of producing offspring. The females can be separated from the male fathers of their pups for an astounding 45 months and still have a viable baby.
Moisés A. Bernal, a PhD candidate at the Marine Science Institute at UT Austin, explains how scientists made the discovery:
The next tiny animal astonished scientists after they finished sequencing its genome…
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