The pup hatched in a tank housing two female sharks who hadn't been around any male sharks in over three years.
A small shark swimming around a Louisiana aquarium holds a mystery in its DNA. Yoko the swell shark hatched from an egg that ...
Yoko is believed to be the result of parthenogenesis, a rare type of asexual reproduction where offspring develop from ...
The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana is investigating the mysterious birth of a baby swell shark, despite no male sharks ...
A Louisiana aquarium has a new star — and a mystery — on its hands after a baby shark was born in a habitat without any males. The Shreveport Aquarium announced last week that Yoko the swell ...
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 ...
The birth of a baby shark at Shreveport aquarium has flummoxed marine experts. The newborn hatched in a tank with no male presence and whose only inhabitants were female sharks. Though the ...
"[There was] definitely surprise," Greg Barrick, curator of live exhibits at the Shreveport Aquarium, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. But, he added, a fatherless shark — while rare — is ...