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 ...

finds a way," a Shreveport Aquarium employee said about the surprising birth Rachel Raposas is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Getty A new baby shark ...

the aquarium said Friday. The swell shark, nicknamed Yoko, hatched on Jan. 3, according to the Shreveport Aquarium. What makes the birth mysterious is that the tank is home to two female sharks who ...

Shark pup Yoko was born in early January, Shreveport Aquarium said, having hatched from an egg in a tank containing two female sharks but no male ones. In fact, neither of the sharks that could ...

"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," said Shreveport Aquarium, Louisina's curator of live animals, Greg Barrick.