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This 15-week-old zebra shark, like all zebra sharks, had developed in an egg. But that egg had been laid at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia and was flown to Indonesia, where it hatched in a ...

See the best animal photos of 2018. Get up close to a shark feeding frenzy and meat-eating bats in these amazing pictures selected by National Geographic editors.

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This story appears in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. AT SUNSET THE WILDEBEEST SEEMS DOOMED: Sick or injured, it’s wandering miles from its herd on the Serengeti Plain of ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t ...

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Ligers, zorses, and pizzlies: How animal hybrids happen. Interbreeding between animals of different lineages is widespread in nature—and may reveal some of the mysteries of evolution.

Leonie had previously given birth after mating with a male shark at the Reef HQ aquarium in Townsville, Queensland. In 2012, she was moved into a separate tank at the aquarium with no male sharks.