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August 05, 2005

You want to do what?

Following on from an earlier post, Australians are going ahead with test tube baby sharks.

Yahoo had an interesting article which tells us that

The gray nurse is one of the fiercest-looking but most docile marine creatures

And in the very next paragraph that

In a process called intrauterine cannibalism, gray nurse embryo pups develop a jaw and razor-sharp teeth very early in their development and cannibalize siblings in the womb.

which would not appear particularily docile to me.

Melbourne Aquarium this month artificially inseminated Lonnie, an 8-1/2-foot-long seven-gill shark with the sperm from a male tank mate.

Docile though they may be, artificially inseminating something that looks like this little girl is not something that seems inherently wise.

Some short while after that, they're going to remove the embryos (before they grow teeth) and pop them in individual, artificial wombs (they'll probably end up using buckets) of artificial shark-amniotic fluid, so they don't have the chance to eat each other.

Neither of which have been developed yet. Back to the drawing boards. And next time, frickin' laser beams!

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at August 5, 2005 02:13 PM

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