Basking sharks are filter feeders, they have no teeth and feed on microscopic plankton by opening wide their huge mouths. Satellite imagery of microscopic life in […]
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12
Apr
2014
Follow the…. FOOD!
07
Apr
2014
Saving sharks? Save their nursing grounds!
Last year December, a study presented research results, that proved that female nurse sharks return ‘home’ to give birth. Scientists tracked lemon sharks, a highly […]
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23
Mar
2014
Great hammer in great danger!
Sphyrna mokarran is the largest of all hammerhead species of the family of Sphyrnidae, attaining a maximum length of 6.1 m (20 ft). It inhabits is tropical […]
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11
Mar
2014
Are sharks socializing?
Many shark species live in groups, like grey reef sharks that aggregate in groups of females, and scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini) that swim in schools. […]
More / MeerThere has been a lot of publicity about shark culling in West Australia, Isle de la Réunion and Seychelles. And rightfully so. But the populations […]
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05
Feb
2014
Mysterious Travels by Tagged Tigers
In Australia, the government has started to cull sharks of 3 meter or longer with baited drum lines. But these sharks are not Australian, they […]
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30
Jan
2014
Baby talk
We do not yet know much about the reproductive strategies of sharks and rays. Sharks have probably been very successful through the evolution because they […]
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23
Jan
2014
Elephant what??? Meet the elephant shark
The elephant shark is a relic of a bygone age, sometimes called a living fossil, a creature alive today that has changed little since it […]
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15
Jan
2014
Have tag, will travel!
Galeorhinus galeus is a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Galeorhinus. Common names include school shark, tope shark, soupfin […]
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31
Dec
2013
What did we do in 2013??
After working abroad we returned to the Netherlands, and discovered that the number of Dutch Sharks is increasing. And so are the ‘shark myths’: […]
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