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

Scientists are studying whether a phenomenon called parthenogenesis, a rare form of asexual reproduction, or delayed fertilization, where fertilization occurs long after mating, could have occurred. The birth of a shark in a habitat where there were no male specimens of this species has excited the scientists at the Shreveport Aquarium in the state of Louisiana,