By Benedict King, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Martin Rücklin, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, and Philip C J Donoghue, University of Bristol Teeth play a central role in the ecology of most vertebrates – for catching prey, processing food and even attracting a mate. It’s no surprise that scientists such as ourselves have long been […]
Do monster shark movies harm conservation efforts?
Exacerbating a fear of sharks that’s disproportionate to their actual threat damages conservation efforts, often influencing people to support potentially harmful mitigation strategies.
Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old shark attack victim
Researchers from Oxford University and their colleagues in Japan have discovered the earliest evidence of a shark attack on humans, dating back 3,000 years.
Slow and steady wins the Great Shark Race 2021
The main goal of this unusual race is to further key scientific research aimed at saving these and other endangered shark species.
The Conversation: America’s obsession with sharks started long before Shark Week
American servicemen became so squeamish about the specter of being eaten during long oceanic campaigns that U.S. Army and Navy intelligence operations engaged in a publicity campaign to combat fear of sharks.
Lack of global biodiversity agreements could be a catastrophe for open-water shark species
A near-sharkless open ocean could soon be a reality, according to Nathan Pacoureau, a postdoctoral researcher in the Earth to Ocean Research Group at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Pacoureau and an international research team recently detected a 70% decline in shark and ray populations over the last 50 years. This study, published in Nature, underscores […]
Ancient Antarctic sharks store climate secrets in their teeth
The now-extinct sand tiger shark species Striatolamia macrota was once a constant in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula, and it left exquisitely preserved fossil teeth.
OceanX opens up world of the bluntnose sixgill shark
Although this ancient shark hasn’t changed much since the age of dinosaurs, little is known about the apex predator because it spends most of its time at depths of up to 4,500 feet.
The Conversation: South Africa’s plan to protect sharks needs an urgent update
The debate led to an opportunity to assess shark conservation and management in South Africa. It also provided a chance to spotlight vulnerable shark species.
Sharks and cancer: past myths, present realities and future possibilities
Whilst sharks do seem to have some kind of resistance to disease, they are not immune to cancer.
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