The suggestion that they deliver loads of nutrients to the reefs in the process is backed up by previous studies that used isotope chemistry.
Human presence slowing Great Barrier Reef’s shark recovery
Much of the Great Barrier Reef is legally protected in an effort to conserve and rebuild the fragile marine environment. Marine reserves are considered the gold standard for conservation, and often shape our perception of what an “undisturbed ecosystem” should look like. However our research, published today in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, […]
India pushes ancient species to brink of extinction
In the already ancient marine world, sharks and their close relatives, rays and skates, can claim a unique early ancestry. Their first ancestor is estimated to have arrived around 350 million years ago, before our earliest human ancestors, before even most plants had colonised land. But this long evolutionary history offers no protection to this […]
VIDEO: Shark bites spearfisherman on the head
Spearfisherman Wil Krause only remembers the crunching sounds after a shark bit down on his skull. The 29-year-old from South Carolina was on a spearfishing dive in the Bahamas this summer when an approximately 6-foot reef shark bit down on the back of his head. Video of the incident, shot by another diver, Zachary Shipps, […]