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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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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

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

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The Thrashing Thresher Shark

A thresher shark’s long tail fin helps not only its swimming ability, but also...

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Shark Embryo

Sharks have young in three different ways. After internal fertilization, some...

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Sharks caught in nets

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

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Biomimicry Shark Denticles

Great White Sharks are stealthy hunters and the secret is in their skin. Shark skin...

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Dead Great White Shark

By-catch, illegal fishing, sport fishing, loss of prey and habitat and shark nets...

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Long Live the Sharks and Rays

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

Personal Perspectives

Seafood for Thought

Sunday, November 21 marks World Fisheries Day, an annual occasion observed in many...

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Greenland Shark: One Species at a Time

Scientists know the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) moves slowly in the...