The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana has witnessed something remarkable—a newborn shark pup in a tank that only houses female ...

Most people find sharks threatening. Who doesn’t have an image in their mind of a menacing shark fin racing through the ocean in search of its next meal? But it is the shark that is threatened.

Just in time for Christmas, an aquarium in Chicago heralded a virgin birth. Instead of mating, a zebra shark used her own genetic material to fertilize two eggs, Shedd Aquarium officials announced ...

A shark having babies? Not always newsworthy. But a shark having babies after the mother shark in question had not been in the company of a male shark since her arrival at the facility back in 2019?

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In a rare instance, a shark at Brookfield Zoo gave birth through asexual reproduction. The Zoo, located just outside of Chicago. announced on Wednesday that the Epaulette shark pup hatched on Aug. 23.

The successful management of animals requires determining when and where animals give birth to protect their vulnerable life-stages (such as the newborn stage or throughout pregnancy) and specific ...

A baby shark has been born in a Chicago aquarium asexually, with her mother having not mated with any of the males present in her tank. A study published in the Journal of Fish Biology in November ...

"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," a Shreveport Aquarium employee said about the surprising birth Getty A new baby shark pup has arrived in a tank ...

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