Radiolab20 Juni 2025

Baby Shark

This is episode five of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Today, the strange, squirmy magic behind how sharks make more sharks. Drills. Drama. Death. Even a coliseum of baby sharks duking it out inside mom’s womb. And a man on a small island in the Mediterranean trying, against all odds, to give baby sharks a chance in a little plastic aquarium in his living room. Can a human raise a shark? And if so, what good is that for sharks? And for us? Doo doo doo doo doo doo.

Special thanks to Jaime Penadés Suay and la Fundación Azul Marino.

EPISODE CREDITS:
Reported by - Rachael Cusick
Produced by - Rachael Cusick
with mixing help from - Jeremy Bloom
Fact-checking by - Diane Kelly
and Edited by - Pat Walters

EPISODE CITATIONS:

Articles -
Claudia’s original reporting that inspired the episode

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