Scientists very rarely get access to most sharks, the development of their young or the nursery grounds where they grow. So seeing a hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburo) embryo, halfway through its ...

“This is the first study that shows a shark embryo’s ability to detect and ‘hide’ from a predator”—presented in the study as predator-mimicking electric fields—“by staying completely still and ...

Secrets of the hammerhead shark have been revealed in images studied by scientists, who are now one step closer to discovering how the species got its unique appearance. University of Florida ...

The TikToker said the corkscrew-shaped California horn shark egg was "pliable" and showed off the tiny, moving embryo inside.

New experimental research shows that the combined effects of ocean warming and acidification could lead to a catastrophic decrease in embryonic shark survival by the year 2100. This research is also ...

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Great white, mako and porbeagle sharks “learn to hunt” in the womb and what they eat is both strange and perhaps a little disgusting, according to new research. Their embryos develop teeth at an early ...

A mysterious egg led researchers to discover a new species of shark, according to a recent scientific paper. Two other identical egg cases were recently found in the Australian National Fish ...

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 come ...