Apparently female hammerhead sharks don’t need males to conceive babies anymore. In 2001 a hammerhead shark was born in the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. There were 3 possible mothers. The interesting thing? None of the 3 female sharks had been in contact with any male for 3 years.

For anyone wondering why everyone is reporting on this 6 years after the fact (like me), I think it’s just because scientists have finally completed the research and want to get it out on print.

It seems like such a miracle, but the miracle got cut short when, just hours after baby hammerhead was born it got eaten by a stingray. Real classy stingray, really. Anticlimactic isn’t it? Poor baby, 3 moms and none of them protected him? Pfft.

Anyway, after the sharks *ahem* untimely death scientists discovered not even one speck of male chromosome in the DNA. Northern Ireland-U.S. researchers have come to the conclusion then that female sharks can fertilize their own eggs and give birth without any help from males. Whoo hoo for asexualness.

Now…if only human females could accomplish that, I’d finally see my dream of the extinction of all males come true. Sorta brings a tear to your eye doesn’t it?