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

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

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

The Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana is investigating the mysterious birth of a baby swell shark, despite no male sharks ...

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 ...

Yoko the swell shark was born in a habitat of all-female sharks who hadn't seen a male in years. The aquarium has two ...

The birth of a baby shark at Shreveport aquarium has flummoxed marine experts. The newborn hatched in a tank with no male presence and whose only inhabitants were female sharks. Though the ...

"[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 ...

A baby shark was hatched at a Louisiana aquarium despite there being no male sharks in the tank for three years, the aquarium said. Footage released by the Shreveport Aquarium on Friday, January 24, ...

Yoko' the young swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) was born in an all-female tank at Shreveport Aquarium. Amazingly, the two female sharks in the tank – one of which is Yoko's mum ...