Shark pup Yoko was born in early January, Shreveport Aquarium said, having hatched from an egg in a tank containing two ...

In January, a baby shark was born in a tank containing only two female swell sharks at the Shreveport Aquarium. It could be a ...

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 ...

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

Yoko is believed to be the result of parthenogenesis, a rare type of asexual reproduction where offspring develop from ...

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

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 ...

Officials with the Shreveport Aquarium recently announced the unusual birth of a swell shark pup in a tank where only two female sharks were present. Named “Yoko” from the Chumash word “onyo ...

Credit: Shreveport Aquarium/Cover Images Aquarium staff in Louisiana are stunned by an extraordinary 'virgin birth' in their ...

A small shark swimming around a Louisiana aquarium holds a mystery in its DNA. Yoko the swell shark hatched from an egg that ...