A Louisiana aquarium welcomed a new baby shark to its facilities earlier this month, but staff are unsure of exactly where it came from. On Jan. 3, a swell shark egg hatched at Shreveport Aquarium ...

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 ...

Staff at the Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana were astonished by the birth of a baby swell shark named Yoko. The young shark hatched in a tank that housed only two female sharks, which had not ...

finds a way," a Shreveport Aquarium employee said about the surprising birth Rachel Raposas is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Getty A new baby shark ...

"[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 ...

Yoko the baby swell shark was born in Louisiana's Shreveport Aquarium in early January. Morgan Nix via CNN Newsource A phenomenon called parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction where the ...

Officials at a Louisiana aquarium are investigating the mystery of a swell shark baby that hatched despite its mother having no contact with male sharks for at least three years. The Shreveport ...