In agony she reached the shore to give birth to her puppies.
It is thanks to this extreme gesture that twenty specimens of blue shark, known as blue shark, are still alive.
It happened in Calasetta, on the island of Sant'Antioco, in a stretch of Le Saline beach.
It was some citizens who reported to the forestry department the presence of a large beached fish.
It was later ascertained that it was a female blue shark, about two meters long, with evident lesions on the body.
"The surprise was even greater in noticing that the shark, in a last extreme effort, was giving birth to its young", the foresters say.
After receiving information from the vets of the Cetacean and Turtle Recovery Center in Nora, the officers witnessed the birth of 20 baby sharks which were immediately released into the sea.
The forest staff remained in the area until the sharks moved away: they were very disoriented and kept returning to the shore, remaining trapped in the undertow and therefore risking dying.
