Sharks are living in a changing ocean… Understanding how sharks sense and interact with their environment is vital for sustaining populations of these marine predators, […]
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Follow the…. FOOD!
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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
More / MeerElephant 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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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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