Languages: English, Spanish Footage and photos capturing the first baby zebra sharks going into the wild as part of an ambitious reintroduction plan to restore populations of the endangered ...

An international effort to rebuild shark populations officially has begun. Two baby zebra sharks were released in the Raja Ampat Regency of Indonesia earlier this year as the first step in a ...

Zebra sharks are listed as endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. The shark fin trade and loss of habitat have decimated zebra shark numbers.

Researchers found a female zebra shark gave birth to pups through parthenogenesis, a.k.a. "virgin births" Melissa Montoya is an associate editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

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 ...

Although she hadn’t been around a male shark in three years, the captive zebra shark—named Leonie—laid eggs that hatched three viable pups. (Read our earlier story about the birth.) ...

Five zebra shark pups were born in April, conservationists announced, part of a cohort of 24 hatched this year to restock the wild population in Indonesia’s Raja Ampat archipelago. The breed-and ...

There are two Black Tip Reef sharks, a Zebra shark and a Tasselled Wobbegong. “This is what your ecosystem looks like and what it looks like when these animals interact. That’s our whole area ...

The Zebra Sharks and Shark Ray are just a few of the dozens of shark and ray species visitors will discover during Shark Summer at Newport Aquarium. “Shark Summer is really exciting, and it’s ...

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.