Scientists from King Abdullah University for Science and Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute recently completed a six-year study of whale sharks around the Shib Habil reef in Saudi Arabia.
Microbiomes may unlock shark’s resistance to infection
The scientists collected skin mucus samples from the backs and gills of wild-caught blacktip reef sharks around the Seychelles Islands in order to analyze microbial communities living on the skin of sharks
Great white sharks form social groups when feeding
Great white sharks regroup with the same sharks when they make their annual return to feeding grounds in the Neptune Islands in the Great Australian Bight.
OCEARCH wraps up successful Nova Scotia expedition
OCEARCH concluded its return trip to Nova Scotia with the successful tagging and releasing of 11 new white sharks.
Degraded environments stunt shark development
A new study found that sharks born into environments degraded by human-induced stressors develop more slowly than those who grow up in more pristine habitats.
Shark Talks: Shark Ecologist Bradley Strickland
With the Atlantic hurricane season in it peak, one of the questions we have been running across frequently is “what do sharks do during a catastrophic weather event.” To find out, we reached out to Bradley Strickland, a doctoral student at Florida International University in Miami. One of Strickland’s area’s of research includes a long-term […]
Mako sharks’ migration shows impressive sense of memory
Tracking data off the western coast of the United States showed how advanced mako sharks’ sense of navigation and site memory really is.
Prehistoric sharks were suckers for crustaceans
A new study by the University of Chicago found that a prevalent species of 335-million-year-old shark had sophisticated jaws that functioned in much the same way as modern nurse sharks. Researchers used CT scans of fossils embedded deep in rock to create 3-D models of the movements and mechanics of the prehistoric sharks. The findings […]
Researchers uncover secret to glowing sharks
Researchers have identified a previously unknown family of small-molecule metabolite that is responsible for the bioflourescence of deepwater sharks that allows them to see each other in the darkest of depths. David Gruber, a professor at City University of New York, and Jason Crawford, a professor at Yale University, extracted chemicals from the skin samples of […]
Blue sharks reveal secret ocean buffets for large predators
A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington found that sharks ride fast-moving currents to dive to depths where prey is plentiful. Using satellite tags attached to more than a dozen blue sharks off the Northeast Coast of the U.S., the researchers found that […]
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