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It has been suspected that great white sharks spend the first year of their lives at the New York Bight along the Atlantic coast of the United States. Researchers from several institutions sought to shed some light on the subject.
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The newly discovered species was named Genie's Dogfish (Squalus clarkae) in honour of Eugenie Clark, the pioneer in shark biology renowned for her work on shark behaviour.
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For the first time in over 30 years, a great white shark has been observed off Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean.
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Prevention and responses to shark bites have varied temporally and regionally, and have included shark hunts, organised shark culling, beach meshing and drumlines, beach closures, shark fences, land and aerial based shark spotting, and acoustic te
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Once in a while, a video surfaces on social media showing dying sharks or rays experiencing capture-induced births, giving birth to their squirming babies on the deck of fishing boats.
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The first of its kind in Costa Rica, the Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Sanctuary of Golfo Dulce is the result of a collaboration between Rainforest Trust and Misión Tiburón.
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What do sharks do when we’re not looking?
To answer this question, Murdoch University fish biologist Lauran Brewster attached accelerometers to the fins of 24 lemon sharks in the Bimini Islands, Bahamas to find out.
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They are currently looking to recruit an organised, goal oriented team player who is interested in facilitating the education of student interns and maintaining overall operations of the station.
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According to Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), there are no reliable estimates of white shark population sizes or trends in Australian waters, but genetic evidence suggests there are two populations
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The sixgill sharks are a genus, Hexanchus, of deepwater sharks characterized by a broad, pointed head, six pairs of gill slits, comb-like, yellow lower teeth, and a long tail.
Read moreWe showed that the sixgills in the Atlantic are actually very different from the ones in the Indian and Pacific Oceans on a molecular level, to the point where it is obvious that they’re a different species even though they look very
As darkness fell, a small nurse shark would appear, attach itself to a scrap, and rest there, its wide fins stirring, as it adjusted its position to feed. Soon, more would materialize from the dim surroundings and drift in uneven circles.
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Multiple paternity occurs when a single brood of offspring is fertilized by multiple males. Multiple mating by females is referred to as polyandry and is one mating strategy widely documented to increase the genetic quality of offspring.
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The sixgill sharks are a genus, Hexanchus, of deepwater sharks characterized by a broad, pointed head, six pairs of gill slits, comb-like, yellow lower teeth, and a long tail.
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In 2017, there had been 88 reported unprovoked shark attacks worldwide.
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After studying 611 fishes from different sites in Rowley Shoals and Scott Reefs in northwest Australia, scientists discovered that having fewer sharks around caused the fishes in the vicinity to develop smaller eyes and tails.
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