Instead of penises, male sharks use two claspers to get sperm into females. And about 15 shark species can have young without males, with females self-fertilizing eggs.

Megamouth sharks are so rare that there have only been 269 recorded sightings, ever. ... "This may be a mating pair: the second video shows a male (claspers clearly visible) ...

Courtship and procreative behavior in many species of elasmobranchs—cartilaginous fish including rays, sawfish, sharks, and skates—may include following and biting. However, there has been ...

Alistair Dove, who has previously conducted research in St. Helena, said he’s seen male whale sharks soliciting contact from adult female sharks, including rotating their claspers, or sexual ...

Fishermen in California spotted an extremely rare breed of shark, a pair of megamouth sharks, 30 miles off the San Diego coast. Fox News Media; ... (no visible claspers)," Alisa Schulmman-Janiger, ...

It wasn’t until around 5:30 p.m., when they were on their second-to-last drone battery, that a small white shark swam into view near a spot where Gauna had seen one of the large sharks dive down ...

Despite being one of the largest fish in the sea, sightings of the megamouth shark are few and far between. Really far between. Thus research of the species is also scarce.But last Sept. 11, a pair… ...

Alistair Dove, who has previously conducted research in St. Helena, said he’s seen male whale sharks soliciting contact from adult female sharks, including rotating their claspers, or sexual ...