Using sophisticated electronic tags, scientists have assembled a large biologging dataset to garner comparative insights on how sharks, rays, and skates—also known as "elasmobranchs"—use the ocean depths. While some species ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2022
0
248
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are often thought to be solitary behemoths that live and feed in the open ocean. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and colleagues, however, have found that this is not necessarily the ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2011
0
0
A study has shown how ecotourism in the Philippines has transformed people's attitudes towards marine conservation.
Ecology
May 5, 2020
0
63
A fragment of whale rib found in a North Carolina strip mine is offering scientists a rare glimpse at the interactions between prehistoric sharks and whales some 3- to 4-million years ago during the Pliocene.
Archaeology
Nov 10, 2011
0
0
In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old killing ...
Archaeology
Jun 8, 2009
0
0
They are the largest fish species in the ocean, but the majestic gliding motion of the whale shark is, scientists argue, an astonishing feat of mathematics and energy conservation. In new research published today in the British ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2010
6
0
An international team of researchers have for the first time uncovered the migration routes for whale sharks around Madagascar.
Ecology
May 17, 2018
0
31
Anyone who has ever struggled with knowing which plastic items they can or cannot place in their recycling bin will appreciate the complex task facing Professor Rob Hale and his students at William & Mary's Virginia Institute ...
Environment
Jun 11, 2018
0
8
"Whoopi' the manta ray—a regular visitor to Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef—has helped University of Queensland and Murdoch University scientists study rays' impressive ability to heal.
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2019
1
85
(AP) -- The carcass of a rare blue whale washed ashore in southern New Zealand after it apparently died of old age, a marine expert said Thursday.
Plants & Animals
May 28, 2009
0
0
