Eat meat together while still in the womb

Carcharias Taurus sharks eat each other from the womb. Australian scientists decided to intervene to save them.

Carcharias Taurus shark species
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Female sharks Carcharias Taurus begins to become pregnant with more than 40 embryos in the uterus. A year later, when the mother shark was labored, there were only two baby sharks, each in a womb. But another was a victim of uterine carnivores, a phenomenon that only occurred in Carcharias Taurus sharks.

Nick Otway, a research author, is a group of scientists at the Cronulla Fisheries Center near Sydney, who explains that when embryos are about 10 centimeters in size, four months old, they have completely developed, active teeth. move and start eating each other.

According to Dr. Otway, sharks Cacharius Taurus with a length of up to 3m is a species that is threatened with extinction.

Scientists are looking to develop an artificial uterus so that shark embryos can grow without eating each other. They plan to catch new female sharks to get pregnant, suck embryos and place each embryo in an artificial uterus. But it took five years for research to replicate natural growth conditions.

If this first test in the world is successful, it will be able to feed about 40 baby sharks a year, and begin to grow the shark population Cacharius Taurus. According to the researchers, although the shark species Cacharius Taurus eat each other from the womb, they do not attack people.

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