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Shark Sex Quite Samey

  • 15-07-2009 06:04PM
    #1
    Galvasean
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    It seems sharks have been spending the last 400 million years evolving all sorts of ways to eat things, but not much of that time has been spent refining their mating habits.
    The mode of reproduction seen in modern sharks is nearly 400 million years old. That is the conclusion drawn by Professor Per Erik Ahlberg, Uppsala University, from his discovery of a so-called 'clasper' in a primitive fossil fish earlier this year.

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