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The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

The pup hatched in a tank housing two female sharks who hadn't been around any male sharks in over three years.

For example, the fecundity of oviparous stocks ranged from 8 for the roughtail skate Bathyraja trachura (Ebert, 2005) to 360 for the big skate (Ebert and Davis, 2007). The catch, effort, and bycatch ...

some researchers from researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Bristol led another study in which they analyzed 51 fossil species and 29 living species categorized as oviparous ...

Anchovy species are abundant in most of the world’s marine ecosystems and are an important food source for other marine organisms (Tudela and Palomera, 1997; Gibson and Atkinson, 2016). Most species ...

ADULT members of the phylum Nematomorpha, residing in aquatic habitats, lay their eggs within long strings commonly referred to as ‘egg-strings’. In the nematomorphs this egg-string is ...

Staff at the Shreveport Aquarium in Louisiana were astonished by the birth of a baby swell shark named Yoko. The young shark hatched in a tank that housed only two female sharks, which had not ...

When threatened, the swell shark swallows vast amounts of seawater, which causes its belly to swell and makes it difficult for predators to eat The swell shark species is oviparous which means ...