Stingray Gets Pregnant With No Males Around, Turns Out She Did Not Get Impregnated By A Shark Or Self-Reproduce, It's Much Weirder Than Both

There are some things in nature that will forever leave us baffled, some things that… are mysteries that may never be perfectly explained. Things like learning the truth about fossils in the Appalachian mountains or why some caves and structures look just like prehistoric petrified animals or… why the heck do octopuses sometimes punch fish for no reason other than spite? There is so much to discover, so many questions to answer, to many amazing things that we can learn about the animal world and nature in general.

But at the end of the day, some things about nature we will never understand, and we thought that the unexpectedly pregnant stingray in today's thread would be one of them. We thought that there must be some simple explanation for why a stingray in an enclosure without any males in it suddenly got pregnant. But we were wrong. We were so… so wrong.

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When we saw this at first, weeks ago, we thought it was weird. Yes, we did. Of course we did. But we didn't think it would go anywhere. Simply a strange text exchange between two people talking about something weird that is probably perfectly easily explainable. Oh, how wrong we were.
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When Hank says that it's much weirder than a stingray having a baby with a shark or a stingray getting pregnant with clones of itself… Hank is not lying. You may think it's impossible for something to be weirder than those two things, and that makes you normal. That makes you the innocent summer child that we were too before reading this thread.
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