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Tagging Sharks with the Smithsonian Movement of Life Initiative

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Tagging Along With Whale Sharks

The sea's largest fish has been a mystery until recent decades. Thanks to...

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

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Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam

The pre-industrial American landscape was once rightly described as a place where...

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