Every summer, the quiet waters of Willapa Bay in Southwest Washington become a shark superhighway. Catching one of the Pacific Northwest’s top predators takes time, a little luck and big chunks of ...
Catching one of the Pacific Northwest’s top predators takes time, a little luck and big chunks of meat. Oregon State University shark researcher Jess Schulte grabs a fishing hook about as big as her ...
Little is known about how leopard sharks mate in the wild. Rare footage shows a female doing the deed back-to-back with two different males. Reading time 2 minutes Springer Nature’s Journal of ...
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On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...
The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a generation of scientists helped to turn the tide. By Alexa Robles-Gil When Steven Spielberg’s famous mechanical shark, ...
Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...
Blind as a bat. See like a hawk. Eagle-eyed…Eyes like a shark? As humans, we’ve long been fascinated by the capabilities, or lack thereof, of creatures throughout the animal kingdom. While some ...
Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) – also known as white sharks or white pointers – are slow to reach sexual maturity. Males aren’t ready to reproduce until they’re in their 20s and females ...
Researchers made the first known recordings of sharks making sounds after noticing they made clicks while being handled at a marine laboratory. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
Whale sharks typically measure from 39 to 59 feet, weigh up to 14 tons and are plankton eaters; all sharks have a unique pattern of white spots on their upper side. Scientists say they need to know ...