A Louisiana aquarium is investigating how a baby shark hatched without a male present for three years. Experts suspect delayed fertilization or parthenogenesis, a rare form of asexual reproduction. A ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

New experimental research shows that the combined effects of ocean warming and acidification could lead to a catastrophic decrease in embryonic shark survival by the year 2100. This research is also ...

(CN) — Without drastic changes, humanity is headed for a much warmer future, and some creatures won’t make it there with us. According to a new study, sharks might be one animal to get wiped out by ...

A Louisiana aquarium welcomed a new baby shark to its facilities earlier this month, but staff are unsure of exactly where it came from. On Jan. 3, a swell shark egg hatched at Shreveport Aquarium in ...

A shark pup was born in a Louisiana aquarium tank — but no one knows how. The Shreveport Aquarium announced the hatching of a baby swell shark on Jan. 3 — but the pup was born in a tank that contains ...

The value, therefore, is not in each baby shark; it’s in the adult that’s capable of making them. And because many sharks can take years—some species up to four decades—before they are able to start ...