In January, a baby shark was born in a tank containing only two female swell sharks at the Shreveport Aquarium. It could be a ...

Officials at a Louisiana aquarium are investigating the mystery of a swell shark baby that hatched despite its mother having ...

The arrival of a baby swell shark at an aquarium in Louisiana has caused a wave of excitement, after the egg hatched despite ...

A Louisiana aquarium welcomed a new baby shark to its facilities earlier this month, but staff are unsure of exactly where it ...

A female swell shark gives birth to a pup without coming in contact with a male, and now scientists are wondering how this is even possible.

Staff at Louisiana's Shreveport Aquarium have been left stumped by the 'virgin birth' of a shark pup. Yoko, a swell shark pup, hatched on January 3 in an all-female tank that had not seen a male shark ...

Experts say the case is either a rare form of asexual reproduction or an instance of (very) delayed fertilization ...

The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana kicked off 2025 with a mysterious birth. A swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) pup ...

When an egg appeared one day in a shark tank at a Louisiana aquarium, staff were puzzled. The tank only has two resident sharks — and they're both female. What's more, neither of them have had ...

The Shreveport Aquarium announced last week that Yoko the swell shark — named for "Onyoko ... months after her egg was first discovered in a tank with only female inhabitants.

The pup hatched in a tank housing two female sharks who hadn't been around any male sharks in over three years.

The egg was discovered by aquarium staff in a female shark tank about eight months ago, but it may have remained undetected for a month or two before, according to a news release. What makes the ...