1
2
July 3, 2023 Increasing opportunities for up-close encounters with sharks and other animals are making wildlife tourism one of the fastest growing tourism sectors -- leading ecology experts to venture to one of ...
July 25, 2022 Whale sharks are filter feeders and have long been observed eating krill at Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef. But when researchers analysed biopsy samples from whale sharks at the reef, they ...
Oct. 28, 2021 Genetic population connectivity study of the endangered whale shark in Pacific Panama provides important baseline data for conservation ...
May 9, 2022 New research indicates that lethal collisions of whale sharks with large ships are vastly underestimated, and could be the reason why populations are ...
July 4, 2022 Satellite-tracking of the largest fish in the ocean offered insight into their migratory and feeding behavior, but their breeding grounds are still a ...
Mar. 29, 2023 A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin -- a protein in the eye that detects light -- of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water ...
Nov. 4, 2021 While rubbing up against a shark sounds like a risky move if you're a fish, a collaborative research team found that this behavior is frequent, widespread, and could play a previously ...
Mar. 24, 2021 A team of researchers has examined the fossil record of these apex predators and found out that modern tiger sharks are older than previously ...
Oct. 4, 2022 A new article presents direct evidence of orcas killing white sharks in South ...
Jan. 21, 2024 A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists' understanding of ...