However, complex life forms like humans and sharks only reproduce sexually, requiring a female egg to be fertilized by male sperm for a baby to be born. There are two main types of reproduction in the ...

According to the aquarium, the shark egg was first spotted eight months ago. The shark hatched a few weeks ago and the team at the aquarium is working to determine how it was conceived. Once the shark ...

In a bid to save a species globally, a world-first method of extracting semen from male leopard sharks in the wild has been ...

"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," said Shreveport Aquarium, Louisina's curator of live animals, Greg Barrick.

On Jan. 3, a swell shark egg hatched at Shreveport Aquarium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The egg was discovered by aquarium staff in a female shark tank about eight months ago, but it may have remained ...

Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction, and though there are several documented cases in sharks, this process is extremely rare. Delayed fertilization is when a female animal becomes ...

Or she stored away sperm from a previous sexual encounter and saved it for later, a process known as delayed fertilization. And while neither method of reproduction is a shark's first choice for ...

Scientists are studying whether a phenomenon called parthenogenesis, a rare form of asexual reproduction, or delayed fertilization, where fertilization occurs long after mating, could have occurred.

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

Experts say the case is either a rare form of asexual reproduction or an instance of (very) delayed fertilization Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The swell shark pup at Louisiana's Shreveport ...