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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
A screenshot from the video of a shark swimming underwater.
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Shark DNA Helps Catch Poachers

Dr. Mahmood Shivji explains how shark DNA is used as evidence to prosecute shark...
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 13:14
A coral catshark
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Coral Catshark

Not all sharks are a dull gray: the coral catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus), for...
Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, tows a surface float at Millennium Atoll in the South Pacific.
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Diver With Shark

Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution...
Jaw of the goblin shark
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The Goblin Shark

The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is one of the creepier fish out there! It...
A strange looking frilled shark smiles at the camera.
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Frilled Shark

Is it an enormous eel? No—it's a shark! The frilled shark is named for its...
Blue-spotted stingrays use the help of cleaner fish to stay clean and healthy.
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Blue-spotted Stingray

The blue-spotted stingray (Taeniura lymma) doesn’t like to be covered in sand...
A thresher shark uses its unusual tail fin for swimming and hunting.
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The Thrashing Thresher Shark

A thresher shark’s long tail fin helps not only its swimming ability, but also...
Ever heard of a cookie-cutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis)? They look like your average shark—sort of menacing and streamlined—but their name comes from how they feed. They eat smaller animals (like squid) whole, but also take large, round cookie-cutt
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Cookie-cutter Shark

Ever heard of a cookie-cutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis)? They look like your...
A manta ray meets a diver face-to-face near San Benedicto, Mexico.
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Diver Meets Manta Ray

Manta rays are related to sharks, but have quite a different reputation among...
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...
An illustration of the megalodon shark.
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Ancient Giant Megatooth Shark

A scientific illustration of the most powerful fish of its time, Carcharocles...

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