The first new law fully regulates shark and ray catch in Gabon’s fisheries. Special authorization will now be needed to target sharks and rays in fisheries, with a list of the most vulnerable species fully protected.
Environmental DNA could provide new insights for tracking whale shark populations
Scientists have developed a new way of tracking whale sharks by collecting eDNA from oceanside areas where we know that whales swim past periodically.
New population study reveals South Florida’s most prevalent shark species
The study, which will appear in the scientific journal Ocean & Coastal Management, examined 3,398 sharks caught and released off Miami and the Florida Keys from 2009 to 2021.
Cache of mysterious ancient shark teeth uncovered in Jerusalem
The 2,900-year-old site where this was found is far from any other known place that holds such ancient artifacts and there has not been enough research done to explain how they got here.
400 million year old fossil casts doubt on previous thoughts on shark teeth evolution
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 […]
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