Something fishy

Bananas are nutritious but a box containing the fruit in a grocery in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA posed a health risk.

A worker at the Market Basket who was unboxing produce found a semi-venomous snake hiding in the bananas, narrated Mack Ralbovsky, vice president of Rainforest Reptile Shows, USA Today reports.

The grocery worker was unharmed and the Ornate Cat-eyed Snake from Ecuador was turned over to the RRS, which makes presentations about reptiles and houses such animals.

“We are asking for monetary support to assist in creating a more naturalistic and suitable space for our new hitchhiker friend,” Ralbovsky wrote in an email to USA Today.

Meanwhile, an egg in a tank at the Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana that held two female sharks puzzled its officials.

The egg hatched in early January despite neither of the female sharks having laid it or having had any contact with a male for more than three years, the aquarium said, according to CNN.

The speculation was the swell shark was conceived through a phenomenon called parthenogenesis or delayed fertilization.

Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction where the embryo develops from an egg without fertilization, the aquarium said.

The egg may have been fertilized long after mating happened, it added.