While this purse didn’t contain any sand dollars, it once held a different type of valuable — a skate pup. Often called mermaid’s purses, egg cases are produced by some members of the class ...

In 1989, scientists in Australia found a curious kind of "mermaid's purse" – a leathery egg case, which some species of sharks lay instead of giving birth to live young. The empty egg cases had ...

Each of the hundred or so pouches, known as mermaid purses ... several dives when we stumbled on this area teeming with egg cases," said Beatriz Naranjo, a marine biologist at the University ...

Bamboo shark embryo in a mermaid's purse, from Kempster et al, 2013. Kempster collected egg cases that had been laid in an Australian aquarium and scraped off their outer layers. If he placed a ...

You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing [email protected] A viral video showing a baby zebra shark hatching from its case—sometimes referred to as a "mermaid's purse"—has been viewed ...

As the 1.5m individual gets closer, I notice it's a shark egg, also called a 'mermaid purse', and it looks one of its kind! Is this a case of cannibalism? A cheeky shark looking for an easy high ...

A shark egg case, also known as a "mermaid's purse", is a tough leathery pouch that protects the developing embryo. Once hatched, the empty egg cases are often washed up on beaches. Egg cases of ...

A shark egg case, also known as a "mermaid's purse", is a tough leathery pouch that protects the developing embryo. Once hatched, the empty egg cases are often washed up on beaches. Egg cases of ...