A female zebra shark in a Townsville, Australia aquarium gave birth last year to a litter of three pups despite not having been exposed to a male of the species in over four years. Testing, revealed this week in the journal, Scientific Reports, show that the contain only the mother’s DNA and that the baby […]
Rare ‘ghost shark’ caught on video for first time
Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California captured the first-ever underwater footage of pointy-nosed blue chimaeras, a rare species of”ghost sharks,” while researching deepwater valleys around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast of Central California. It also marks the first time the species, which was first discovered in 2002 off the coast of New Zealand, had […]
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