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 ...

According to the aquarium, the shark egg was first spotted eight months ago. The shark hatched a few weeks ago and the team ...

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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...