These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

New research shows that epaulette sharks, often called “walking sharks,” can produce eggs without increasing their overall energy use.

Epaulette sharks can reproduce without any measurable increase in energy use, stunning researchers who expected egg-laying to be costly. Scientists tracked metabolism, blood, and hormone levels ...

Quite an advantage in today’s world.

Juvenile zebra sharks are born striped, not spotted. This feature explains how those bands mimic venomous sea snakes, deterring predators long before the shark is capable of defending itself. China ...

Furthermore, the team monitored shifts in blood and hormones while the mother sharks laid eggs, explained lead-author Carolyn ...

New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs without any measurable rise in energy use. JCU's shark physiology research ...

New University of Hawaiʻi research confirms that “Sharktober” is real, revealing a statistically significant spike in shark ...

OLOWALU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa has solved a longstanding mystery. Biologists from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Shark Lab have ...

A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first-ever documented mating hub for tiger sharks. The new study, led by the ...