Press Release Johann Heinrich von Thünen InstituteFederal Research Institute forRural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries 07. February 2022 — — — — — — — Scientists from the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time that the domestic shark species displays a profound change in swimming behavior when migrating from the shallow
Press Release Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science 03. November 2021 — — — — — — — Researchers suggest this behavior plays a greater ecological role than previously known MIAMI—While rubbing up against a shark sounds like a risky move if you’re a fish, a collaborative research team led by the University of
Press Release University of Bristol, UK 01. November 2021 — — — — — — — Scientists have found more evidence to support the mistaken identity theory’ in juvenile white sharks during surface attacks on humans. Research, which has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, suggests that sharks mistake humans for
Press Release Bond University, Queensland, Australia 22. September 2021 — — — — — — — — A surfboard-mounted shark deterrent device has been found to reduce the likelihood of bite by 66 per cent during testing off Western Australia. Scientists found the Australian-made Rpela V2 also cut shark interactions such as a nudge by
Press Release New England Aquarium 15. September 2021 — — — —- — — — BOSTON, MASS. (Sept. 15, 2021) – A new landmark study of over 300 sharks found that some species are extremely resilient to the stress of being caught and released in commercial longline fisheries while other species are much more likely
News Release University of South Australia 14 July 2021 — — — — — — Undeniably the shark movie to end all shark movies, the 1975 blockbuster, Jaws, not only smashed box office expectations, but forever changed the way we felt about going into the water – and how we think about sharks. Now, more
News Release Trinity College Dublin 1st July 2021 — — — — — — — — New research from marine biologists offers answers to a fundamental puzzle that had until now remained unsolved: why are some fish warm-blooded when most are not? It turns out that while (warm-blooded) fish able to regulate their own body
Press Release Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 27. April 2021 — — — — — — — The CITES Secretariat and the Secretariat of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) have jointly published two guides to facilitate the identification of shark and ray species common in
Press Release Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 06. April 2021 — — — — — — — Researcher of the NHM Vienna identified a fossilized skeleton of a manatee. The bones bear rare fossil bite marks and teeth of a tiger shark were also found next to the skeleton. What do these fossils tell us about life
Press Release Universität Wien 24. March 2021 — — — — — — — — — With a total length of up to 5.5m, the tiger shark is one of the largest predatory sharks known today. This shark is a cosmopolitan species occurring in all oceans worldwide. It is characterized by a striped pattern on
Press Release The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) 26. January 2021 —- —- —- —- — — — —- A team of marine scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has confirmed that southern Africa’s most threatened endemic shark – the Critically Endangered shorttail nurse shark (Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum) – has been found to occur in
News Release The University of Queensland 23 December 2020 — — — — — — — — — — — A study on the vulnerable white shark has shown that approximately 206 to 252 sharks breed on Australia’s east coast each year. The joint study involving The University of Queensland, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Stellenbosch University in South Africa
News Release Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) 29. July 2020 — — — — — — — Risk-taking individuals are expected to grow better but also die faster than the less explorative individuals. Such trade-offs can maintain multiple phenotypes in a population by allowing individuals with different behavioural strategies to achieve comparable
Media Release Department of Fisheries, Western Australia 29. July 2020 — — — — — — — — — Reliable information for population assessments is rare for sharks, but fisheries researchers from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) have been building a data rich study of non-reef species since 2002. The latest
News Release ORI TAG (Oceanographic Research Institute) 07. April 2020 — — — — — — —- — On the 13th March 2020 a day in history was made for the ORI – Cooperative Fish Tagging Project. Our 1 014th raggedtooth shark (Carcharias taurus) was recaptured after spending an incredible 9 591 days (26.2 years),