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.

As a highly vulnerable marine animal, conservation efforts are key to protect a range of shark species. However, gathering information about breeding habits, which could help with these efforts, is ...

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.

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?

Scientists have published what is likely the first-ever scientifically recorded birthing migration for the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark (sphyrna lewini). The satellite-tagged shark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just in time for Christmas, an aquarium in Chicago heralded a virgin birth. Instead of mating, a zebra shark used her own genetic ...

The female epaulette shark lives in a habitat of her own at the Brookfield Zoo, located outside Chicago, where she's lived since 2019. Jim Schulz / CZS-Brookfield Zoo She don’t need no man. A shark in ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. You may have heard this week about what scientists are learning from the mysterious birth of a baby shark without a father. We explore ...

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The “surprise” birth of a gray nurse shark in Australia is good news for the endangered predator species. Getty Images/iStockphoto Months after endangered gray nurse shark Mary-Lou was seen ...