Do baby sawfish come from eggs?
Sawfish have internal fertilization and bare live young. The eggs hatch in the uterus and the embryos continue to grow inside the mother without a placental connection. The gestation period, or the carrying of young in the uterus, for smalltooth sawfish is unknown, but largetooth sawfish has a gestation period of about five months. Up to 20 young have been reported in a smalltooth sawfish brood.
