Empty shark-egg cases occasionally wash up on coastlines around the world, including in Britain. You may have found some of these strange pouches when you’ve been to the beach. If you have, you’ll ...

"It's more common to find empty egg cases—these will often wash up on the shore," she added. These washed-up shark eggs are sometimes called mermaid's purses and can easily be mistaken for a ...

The arrival of a baby swell shark at an aquarium in Louisiana has caused a wave of excitement, after the egg hatched despite ... whether this was indeed a case of parthenogenesis or if it was ...

Earlier this month, a swell shark egg successfully hatched at the Shreveport ... the coming months to confirm whether this was indeed a case of parthenogenesis or if it was delayed fertilization.

These leathery treasures are shark egg cases, also known as mermaid’s purses. Each capsule can tell us something about how sharks and rays reproduce, the lives they lead and how rare they might be.

The fossil that had long baffled scientists is in fact the largest soft-shelled egg ever found, laid some 68 million years ago, possibly by a type of extinct sea snake or lizard P Pulse News ...

It is among the roughly 40 per cent of sharks that reproduce by laying a tough, leather egg case that contains an embryo. These shark embryos ... to rely heavily on fossil fuels – predicts ...

LIMA – Paleontologists in Peru on Jan 20 unveiled a nine million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it ...