Mercury levels in shark fins illegal and dangerous to human health
Shark fins recently sampled from markets in China and Hong Kong contained dangerously high levels of mercury.
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Can't touch this! Video shows blacktip sharks use shallow water to flee huge predators
It's "hammerhead" time according aerial drone footage of blacktip sharks fleeing to shallow waters when confronted by a huge predator along the coast of southeast Florida. Footage from the drone provides the first evidence ...
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2020
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Hong Kong customs seize 38,500 endangered shark fins
Hong Kong has seized 26 tonnes of smuggled shark fins, sliced from some 38,500 endangered animals, in the largest bust of its kind in the southern Chinese city.
Ecology
May 7, 2020
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Fins from endangered hammerhead sharks in Hong Kong market traced mainly to Eastern Pacific
For the first time, researchers have traced the origins of shark fins from the retail market in Hong Kong back to the location where the sharks were first caught. This will allow them to identify "high-risk" supply chains ...
Ecology
Apr 24, 2020
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Whales filmed having whale of a time during lockdown
With humans away, the whales will play.
Ecology
Apr 9, 2020
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Researchers unlock secrets to swimming efficiency of whales, dolphins for next-gen underwater robots
Someday, underwater robots may so closely mimic creatures like fish that they'll fool not only the real animals themselves but humans as well. That ability could yield information ranging from the health of fish stocks to ...
General Physics
Mar 19, 2020
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Ancient fish fossil reveals evolutionary origin of the human hand
An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins.
Evolution
Mar 18, 2020
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Scientists shrink fin-width of FinFET to nearly the physical limit
FinFETs are known to be an evolution of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) featuring a semiconducting channel vertically wrapped by conformal gate electrodes. It was first proposed in 1990s in order ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 10, 2020
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Undulatory topographical waves for flow-induced foulant sweeping
The stingray, which spends much of their time partially buried on the ocean floor, uses its paired pectoral fins to stabilize their movement through the water and sweep away sandy foreign particles from its surface. A research ...
Biotechnology
Feb 24, 2020
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Walking sharks discovered in the tropics
Four new species of tropical sharks that use their fins to walk are causing a stir in waters off northern Australia and New Guinea.
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2020
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