Four new species of tropical sharks that use their fins to “walk” were recently discovered off northern Australia and New Guinea…
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Nearshore, shallow water nurseries provide food and abundant shelter where blacktip reef shark pups can avoid predators, such as other larger sharks…
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The Sarawak swellshark, Cephaloscyllium sarawakensis, has a new mode of oviparity named “sustained single oviparity”…
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A massive global study of the world’s reefs has found sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ on nearly one in five of the reefs surveyed…
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Mercury itself is a naturally occurring element that is present throughout the environment from industrial activity from coal-fired electricity generation, smelting and the incineration of waste…
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Scientists thought the Ganges River Shark, Glyphis gangeticus, was extinct…
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Because a whale shark has relatively small eyes it was assumed that it relied less on vision than its other senses…
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Thanks to the breakthroughs in ethology, sociobiology, neurobiology and ecology, we can now better understand what the world looks like to fish…
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White sharks are occasionally seen and/or captured in the Gulf of California at Cedros Island, San Benito Island, but Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico is…
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Basking sharks breach like white sharks but for different reasons. White sharks leap out of the water (or breach) to capture agile marine mammals such seals and otters. Basking sharks …
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Understanding the nutritional goals of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, is giving insights into what drives human-shark conflict and how the species can be best protected.
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After reading Dave Grant's article, "Vanishing Sawfish “, in our last newsletter, several members asked me how tell sawfish and sawsharks apart.
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Mercury in shark fins from nine of the most traded shark species in markets in China and Hong Kong contained dangerously high levels of methyl mercury.
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This is the reason why SRI, and responsible scientists have always refused to publish shark tracking data online or in scientific journals until a year or longer after a study concludes.
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A massive squid left scars of its golf-ball size suction disks on the skin of a seven-foot oceanic whitetip shark (C. longimanus),
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Like all animals, sharks have different personalities. A study done several years ago confirmed that sharks of the same species exhibited different behaviors when stressed.
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Evolutionary biologists studied how different oceanographic conditions in the Gulf of California and the Baja California Peninsula (Mexico) gave rise to new species of guitarfish.
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A new study estimates no-take reserves that extend between 10 and 50 kilometres along coral reefs can achieve significant improvements in populations of reef sharks
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Protecting and preserving marine life is what the Shark Research Institute does, so a study that shows how we can rebuild the ocean's marine life by 2050 is great news!
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