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Melbourne: Leonie the leopard shark has made a switch that could save her species becoming the first shark recorded to change from sexual to asexual reproduction, researchers have found. Christine ...

Shirur MP Amol Kolhe called for government-level policies to control leopard reproduction on Tuesday after a four-year-old boy fell victim to a leopard attack in Pune district's Junnar taluka. Taking ...

A leopard shark in Australia has made history after it became the first of its species to be observed switching from reproducing with a male to creating offspring completely asexually. The research ...

A female leopard shark in an Australian aquarium has shocked scientists by making herself pregnant years after being separated from her mate. Leonie, from a species also known as a zebra shark, has ...

A leopard shark in a Queensland aquarium has shocked scientists by being the first in the world to give birth without a male, after previously mating in the usual way. The shark at Townsville's Reef ...

A Leopard female shark in Australia has become the first shark to change from sexual to asexual reproduction in a switch that could save her species, according to British media reports. Leonie, at ...

Sharks have been known to reproduce either sexually or asexually, but it's usually one or the other. Now, researchers have observed the first documented case of a zebra (or leopard) shark switching ...