The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy announced that its latest tagged shark will be known as “Jules” in honor of New England Patriots wide receiver and Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman. The research organization tweeted that the shark, previously designated WS 11-05, was caught and tagged by researcher Greg Skomal off the coast of Massachusetts this week. […]
VIDEO: Fun facts about sharks
Katherine Maslenikov, manager of the University of Washington Fish Collection at the Burke Museum, talks about shark behavior, possible myths, and their role in the ecosystem. Here are a few quick facts about the apex predators: The Pacific Northwest is home to several smaller species, including the dogfish family of sharks, leopard sharks and sixgill sharks. Off […]
OceanX tags first shark using submersible drone
A joint research mission by OceanX, the Cape Eleuthera Institute and the Florida State University Marine Lab led to the first shark successfully tagged using a submersible drone. The expedition, led by FSU Marine Labs Dean Grubbs, was able to implant a tracking device into an adult bluntnose sixgill shark off the coast of The […]
DNA unlocks shark bite mystery nearly 25 years later
The culprit responsible for a shark bite that took place a quarter of a century ago was discovered after a piece of a shark’s tooth was removed from the victim 25 years later. A DNA test of the tooth, conducted by scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History, found that a blacktip shark was to […]
Mysterious deepwater sharks found in urban waters
Scientists from Dalhousie University have discovered that bluntnose sixgill sharks, traditionally thought to only inhabit deeper waters, might be thriving in the near-shore environments just off the coast of Vancouver, Canada. During a mission aboard a Stingray submarine, Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark observed multiple juvenile sixgills in less than 300 foot of water less than one […]
Hammerhead research project wins funding
A group of conservation projects in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will receive funding thanks to Conservation Leadership Programme’s 2019 awards. The Peruvian conservation organization from Tumbes will use the awards to study the seasonal movements of smooth hammerheads off the coast of northern Peru. “I didn’t know what to do with so much […]
Study analyzes Bahamian tiger shark behaviors
A team of researchers, including Assistant Professor in Zoology in Trinity’s School of Natural Sciences, Dr. Nicholas Payne, and a group of researchers from the -profit Beneath The Waves, used bio-logging to record the behaviors of tiger sharks in the Bahamas. The information gathered may shed light on the movement patterns of tiger sharks as […]
Shark Talk: Mother of Sharks Melissa Cristina Marquez
Along with being a major advocate for shark research and conservation, biologist Melissa Cristina Marquez has become one of the leading advocates for women and minorities in the field of shark research. Marquez is the the founder of The Fins United Initiative, an educational initiative that introduces audiences to the diverse sharks and scientists who […]
Study finds Irish porbeagles making a comeback
After over 50 years of overfishing, the porbeagle shark, the smallest of the mackerel shark family, has been making a comeback in the waters off the coast of Ireland, a new study shows. Researchers used data taken analyzed from the Marine Sport Fish Tagging Programme which tagged 268 porbeagle sharks over 47 years, mainly in Irish waters. […]
The Conversation: Sharks pop up in some surprising places
By Michael Sievers, Griffith University; Rod Connolly, Griffith University, and Tom Rayner, Griffith University When we think of mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and saltmarshes, we don’t immediately think of shark habitats. But the first global review of links between large marine animals (megafauna) and coastal wetlands is challenging this view – and how we might […]
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