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ReShark is an international project that releases aquarium-bred zebra sharks into marine protected areas such as Raja Ampat with the help of shark nannies and scientists. Made up of 75 partners ...
Yoko the baby swell shark was born on Jan. 3, some eight months after her egg was discovered in a tank with that only housed other female sharks. Morgan Nix/Shreveport Aquarium hide caption ...
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 ...
The female zebra shark is almost 6 feet long and is about 3 years old. She is the newest marine resident in the 300,000 gallon shark tunnel habitat at the aquarium.
Leonie had previously given birth after mating with a male shark at the Reef HQ aquarium in Townsville, Queensland. In 2012, she was moved into a separate tank at the aquarium with no male sharks.
The arrival of a baby swell shark at an aquarium in Louisiana has caused a wave of excitement, after the egg hatched despite the fact that no male sharks appear to have been involved.
In an unprecedented effort, 15 aquariums from around the world are teaming up to raise endangered baby zebra sharks and reintroduce them into the wild, where populations have nearly gone extinct ...
According to Sakaguchi, juvenile zebra sharks have white stripes on a blackish background, while adults sport a leopard pattern. Essentially, they have completely different body colors depending ...
It speaks to how adaptable sharks are in terms of their reproduction." It has been witnessed in several shark species, ...
There are modern shell-crushing species, the largest being the Zebra shark, which reaches a maximum length of a little over 3.5 meters (12 feet) — not near as gigantic as Ptychodus.
Yoko the swell shark was born in a habitat of all-female sharks who hadn't seen a male in years. The aquarium has two possible explanations — and hopes to get confirmation in the coming months.