Zebra sharks are born with striped markings that change with age to leopard spots. Shark. Say the word, and the image that pops into many people’s heads likely resembles a scene from the big screen—a ...

told CNN that parthenogenesis has been witnessed in a number of shark species, including the zebra shark and whitespotted bamboo shark. It is also thought to have occurred in one species of ray.

This is what was determined to have happened when a female zebra shark at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium hatched an egg without any male contact in 2022. Delayed fertilization has also been documented ...

With some, like the zebra shark and whitespotted bamboo shark, it has been documented in multiple aquariums. Feldheim said the phenomenon has been documented only once in the wild (in the ...