This is called parthenogenesis and is a known phenomenon, albeit rare in vertebrates. Some species, like the New Mexico whiptail, rely on it (all New Mexico whiptails are female).
Here is a paper from 2007 that talks about parthenogenesis in hammerhead sharks..
The New Mexico whiptail is also an F1 hybrid. If they go extinct, you can make more by hybridizing a little striped whiptail and a western whiptail. In case anyone thought that ‘species’ was a solidly defined word.
>F1 hybrid
Wasn’t this also like the inciting incident for the original jurassic park movie?
Nah.
That one was dinosaurs changed gender to male, citing the frog DNA they completed the chain with as having that potential.
So what was supposed to be an all-female park to prevent reproduction became co-ed and then nature happened.
I’m still confused on the difference
Edit: thank you to everyone who replied, I understand the difference now
Genomic imprinting says no. It wouldn’t produce a fetus that is in congruence with the possibility of life. It could at most start growing and developing, but it would die in the womb. More akin to a tumor than to a baby.
How comes it’s possible for a bird or a fish, but not a human? If this article explains why, it is a bit obscure for non specialists.
Messiah Shark do do do do do do
Life, uh, finds a way.
Jesus - I said I was coming back, I didn’t say as what.
Happened at Cala Gonone Aquarium in Sardinia
NO WAY IT’S ON THE SAME ISLAND I LIVE ON
