Scientists Accidentally Bred a Bizarre Hybrid of Two Endangered Fish – ScienceAlert

You’d think at least 184 million years of evolution on entirely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible.
That was the assumption scientists in Hungary were going on when they placed sperm from an American paddlefish near eggs from a Russian sturgeon in the lab.
The idea was to coax the eggs from endangered sturgeon into reproducing asexually through a process called gynogenesis, which requires the presence of sperm without the introduction of any a…

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