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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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Bite Size: Bull Shark Predation of Tarpon

Follow a journey with satellite tags placed on bull sharks and tarpon. Both of...

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Shark DNA Helps Catch Poachers

Dr. Mahmood Shivji explains how shark DNA is used as evidence to prosecute shark...

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Backbone of Biodiversity at Risk

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) maintains the...

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Diver With Shark

Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution...

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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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Alison Kock tags a shark

Save Our Seas scientist Alison Kock tags a great white shark (Carcharodon...

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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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FORENSIC FINS: Using DNA to Prosecute Shark Poachers

It's illegal to hunt threatened species such as the Dusky shark, but still tens of...

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Long Live the Sharks and Rays

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