Legacy of Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Solves Whale Shark Mystery
The radioactive legacy of the arms race reveals true age of the world’s largest fish. Atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped…
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The US Government Issued Sailors and Soldiers Shark Repellent That Didn’t Work – Here’s Why [Video]
People have been developing different forms of shark repellent for decades — the military even issued a chemical shark repellent called “Shark Chaser” to pilots,…
Ocean Acidification From Climate Change Is Damaging Shark Scales
While regular fish have flat scales, shark ‘scales’ look more like teeth. But their denticles also cover their body and in particular influence their ability…
Six-Year Whale Shark Study Offers New Behavior and Conservation Insights [Video]
International team of marine scientists complete six-year whale shark study The study uses a novel combination of several monitoring techniques, including state-of-the-art acoustic and satellite…
Shark Skin Microbiome Protects Wounds From Infection
No evidence of infection found in the bacterial community around shark wounds. A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding…
Tracking Basking Sharks Yields Fascinating Insights Into Their Behavior
Tracking the world’s second-largest shark species has revealed that it moves to different depths depending on the time of year. Basking sharks spend most of…
“Impressive” Memory and Navigation Revealed by Mako Shark Tracking off West Coast
These top predators travel far across the Pacific, returning to the same areas in the Southern California Bight each year. The largest effort ever to…
Scientists Document Summer Surge of Great White Sharks
They increasingly hunt in the waters off Cape Cod, and sometimes humans get in their way. Last summer, scientist Greg Skomal was one of them….
Shark Skin-Inspired Designs Improve Aerodynamic Performance
To build more aerodynamic machines, researchers are drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the ocean. A team of evolutionary biologists and engineers at Harvard University,…
Special Fishing Weights Could Help Save Hammerhead Sharks
The global population of hammerhead sharks, a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, has plummeted by 89% in the last 20 years, largely due…
Visual Repellants May Help Prevent Shark Attacks
Structures in the brains of great sharks are similar to the ones found in humans, and these could be the key to prevent further shark…
Great White Shark Have a More Varied Diet Than Previously Thought
It might seem that Carcharodon carcharias choose seals and sea lions as their preferred prey, but studies indicate that great white sharks consume different prey…
Pacific Islanders Weapons Indicate that Three Shark Species Disappeared
The analysis of the weapons used by the indigenous people of the Gilbert Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, which primarily use shark teeth, indicate…
Relationships of Male Dolphins from Shark Bay Determined by Slow Swimming
In Shark Bay, Australia, the male dolphins are well known to marine biologists for their messy social entanglements. These relationships are so unique, that they’re…
New Shark Species Bythaelurus Giddingsi Discovered in Galapagos Islands
Deep-sea dives around the Galapagos Islands have uncovered a new species of catshark, about 1.3 feet long. Bythaelurus giddingsi was discovered by scientists and specimens were…
Hybrid Sharks Ready to Take Over the Oceans: Fact and/or Fiction
As much as some media outlets would like the appearance of hybrid sharks to foster new, incredible shark attacks, the reality of the situation is…
First Hybrid Sharks Discovered Near Australia
As one of the oldest species on the planet, Sharks have had millions of years of evolution to perfect their predator form, and now sharks…
New Zealand Beach Hosts Battle Between Killer Whales and Sharks
Normally when killer whales and sharks do battle, it takes place far away from humans, but one recent brawl took place on a New Zealand…