An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and dinosaur-era origins reveal how early seas shaped survival across mass extinctions.
Quite an advantage in today’s world.
New research shows that epaulette sharks, often called “walking sharks,” can produce eggs without increasing their overall energy use.
These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.
Furthermore, the team monitored shifts in blood and hormones while the mother sharks laid eggs, explained lead-author Carolyn Wheeler, also from James Cook University.. The sharks proved to be, once ...
Epaulette sharks can reproduce without any measurable increase in energy use, stunning researchers who expected egg-laying to ...
New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs ...
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