A swell shark hatched at Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana after an egg was found in an all-female tank. Screengrab from a video by the Shreveport Aquarium A small shark swimming around a Louisiana ...
The pup hatched in a tank housing two female sharks who hadn't been around any male sharks in over three years.
A Louisiana aquarium is investigating how a baby shark hatched without a male present for three years. Experts suspect delayed fertilization or parthenogenesis, a rare form of asexual reproduction.