In a rare instance, a shark at Brookfield Zoo gave birth through asexual reproduction. The Zoo, located just outside of Chicago. announced on Wednesday that the Epaulette shark pup hatched on Aug. 23.

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The female epaulette shark lives in a habitat of her own at the Brookfield Zoo, located outside Chicago, where she's lived since 2019. Jim Schulz / CZS-Brookfield Zoo She don’t need no man. A shark in ...

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A shark having babies? Not always newsworthy. But a shark having babies after the mother shark in question had not been in the company of a male shark since her arrival at the facility back in 2019?

"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," a Shreveport Aquarium employee said about the surprising birth Getty A new baby shark pup has arrived in a tank ...

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Shark attacks are most likely to happen around when the deadly predators are giving birth, according to new research. Incidents are so frequent in seas around Hawaii in October that it has been dubbed ...