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What the Megalodon Left Behind

The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...

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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...

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Tagging Sharks with the Smithsonian Movement of Life Initiative

Where do sharks like to hangout? Turns out we largely don’t know. But Smithsonian...

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Researching Invasive Species Near the Panama Canal

If you want to study invasive species in the ocean, the Panama Canal offers a lot...

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Don't Feed Wild Dolphins

A Twelve-Step group for wild animals with people-food addictions? Don’t be...

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Protecting Sharks: How Nets Hurt

Tom Peschak, a photojournalist with the Save Our Seas Foundation, describes the...

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Rethink the Shark

Sharks have a long and impressive lineage.  Ancient sharks were cruising the...

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Great White Shark

Sharks are much older than dinosaurs. Their ancestry dates back more than 400...

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X-Rays of Fish Reveal Diversity

Scientists in the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of...

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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico...

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Lava Wave, Kalapana, Hawaii, USA

“In 2010, I became the first photographic artist to ever photograph lava from...

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Sharks caught in nets

Shark nets are trapping and killing dozens of sharks off the coast of South Africa....