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A screenshot from the video showing a school of swimming fish.
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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...
Wed, 12/16/2015 - 09:38
Hawaiian monk seals are among the wildlife found within the Papahānaumokuākea World Heritage Site.
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Backbone of Biodiversity at Risk

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) maintains the...
Thu, 10/28/2010 - 19:01
A whale shark swimming in the water.
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Tagging Along With Whale Sharks

The sea's largest fish has been a mystery until recent decades. Thanks to...
A researcher leans off of a boat to tag a great white shark.
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Alison Kock tags a shark

Save Our Seas scientist Alison Kock tags a great white shark (Carcharodon...
Follow Omoo, a Great White Shark, at she swims across the Pacific.
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TOPP cartoon of Omoo

Omoo, a Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias), carries a satellite tag that...
Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Roca Partida Sea Mount, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico
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Tagging and Tracking Animals Underwater

How do we know where ocean animals swim day and night? Scientists are getting...
May 2012
Freshly cut dorsal fin from a scalloped hammerhead shark held by fisherman with knife.
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Shark Finning: Sharks Turned Prey

Sharks have been feared hunters ever since people first observed them swimming in...
August 2013
an elephant seal with a tracker
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Citizens of the High Seas

In a world where land is partitioned into countries with defined borders, the ocean...
August 2019

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