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For the first time ever, scientists have captured sonogram of a pregnant tiger shark.

Marine scientists have performed an ultrasound exam on a 12-foot-long tiger shark named Emily, finding 20 well-developed pups in her womb.

The footage was revealed during Discovery’s Shark Week, and marks a huge milestone in the field – before now, scientists would have to cut open a shark to determine if she was pregnant.


Researchers say the tiger shark was roughly two-thirds of the way through her pregnancy at the time of the achievement.

‘It was absolutely amazing, she was full of well-developed pups. I’ve never seen this before – she was just jam packed,’ James Sulikowski, PhD, professor of marine science at the University of New England says in the video.

The team estimates that the babies are about 40-45 centimetres long each, and are just a few months away from being born into the world.

‘The amount of pups that you can see in there is really the thing that sticks out to me,’ said Carolyn Wheeler, Research Assistant at Sulikowski Lab at the University of New England

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