Science news articles about 'baby sharks'

Baby sharks still developing in their egg cases can sense when predators are near, and keep very ... from the University of Western Australia and colleagues. Adult sharks are known to use highly sensitive receptors to detect ...

Researchers on Tuesday confirmed the second known case in which a baby shark appears to have been conceived without the mother having mated with a male.

A pregnant shark at a New Zealand aquarium was bitten by another shark, unexpectedly releasing four baby sharks as stunned visitors watched.

Saved from the soup bowl at a Thai restaurant, the baby shark wriggled out of the bag and into the open sea -- a rare survivor of a trade that kills millions of the predators each year.

Baby sharks once grew up in fresh water.

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