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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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Ashmore Reef highlights

The sharks and rays of Ashmore Reef in North West Australia visit baited...

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Sharks are also afraid of shark attacks

Caribbean reef sharks are not the reef's top predator. A fearful reef shark...

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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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Sharks

There are more than 500 species of sharks swimming in the world’s ocean. Yet when...

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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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Blue-spotted Stingray

The blue-spotted stingray (Taeniura lymma) doesn’t like to be covered in sand...

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Australia's 1.2 Million Mile Marine Reserve

In November 2012, Australia began protecting a huge swath of its ocean from...

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Diver Meets Manta Ray

Manta rays are related to sharks, but have quite a different reputation among...

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X-Ray Image of a Monterey Skate

An X-ray image of a Monterey skate (Raja montereyensis) reveals a spine that...

Lesson Plan

Long Live the Sharks and Rays

Students will learn about adaptations that have helped sharks and rays survive....