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

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

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 ...

"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," a Shreveport Aquarium employee said about the surprising birth Rachel Raposas is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE ...

Aquarium staff have also predicted that the baby shark was a result of delayed fertilization, where fertilization occurs long ...

A Louisiana aquarium has a new star — and a mystery ... Not only that, it said, but its team "determined that the two female sharks present in the tank had not been in contact with a male ...

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 ...

Shark pup Yoko was born in early January, Shreveport Aquarium said, having hatched from an egg in a tank containing two female sharks but no male ones. In fact, neither of the sharks that could ...

yet the two female sharks present in the tank have not been in contact with a male in over three years. The team at the aquarium suspects the birth could be delayed fertilization or a rare ...