A shark scuffle at Kelly Tarlton’s has led to the surprise birth of eight premature baby School Shark pups which the curatorial team will nurse until they are strong enough to be released into the wild.

Incredibly the pups emerged, premature but healthy, from a gouge their mother sustained when a Broadnose Sevengill shark took some of its normal seasonal aggression out on her.

The team at Kelly Tarlton’s didn’t know the adult School shark was pregnant so Kelly Tarlton’s Curator, Marine Biologist Andrew Christie, was amazed to see four tiny sharks swim out of the wound – and even more surprised to find four more alive inside when she was treated.

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