Masses of scalloped hammerheads return to one of Australia's busiest beaches
For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia's busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach in the Gold Coast.
For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia's busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach in the Gold Coast.
Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2024
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Scientists very rarely get access to most sharks, the development of their young or the nursery grounds where they grow. So seeing a hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburo) embryo, halfway through its five-month development, is ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 8, 2024
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In wave-making research recently published in Marine and Coastal Fisheries, a team of researchers, led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has quantified the rate at which great hammerhead sharks are ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 22, 2024
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New research from James Cook University shows great hammerhead sharks spend much of their time in the shallows of the Great Barrier Reef to feed on a bountiful supply of stingrays.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2023
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Unlike nearly every other species of shark, scalloped hammerheads are highly social. They gather in large groups, or aggregations, numbering in the hundreds. But why? We don't know.
Plants & Animals
Oct 16, 2023
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For weeks, you'd be hard pressed to tell if the rapidly growing animal was going to become a chicken, a fish, a frog, or even a human.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2023
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How do you collect data to protect critically endangered great hammerhead sharks?
Ecology
Jul 21, 2023
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Delegates at a global summit on trade in endangered species on Friday approved a plan to protect 54 more shark species, a move that could drastically reduce the lucrative and cruel shark fin trade.
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2022
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A new study by researchers at The University of Western Australia has found a critically endangered species of hammerhead shark in Perth metropolitan waters, further south than previously recorded.
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2022
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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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