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Sharks
Sharks are fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and sleek, streamlined body, a shark can range in size from the two-foot pygmy shark to the colossal 50-foot whale shark. Sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays.
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OCT 16, 2017Earth & The Environment
We are only just starting to understand the impacts of the hurricanes that plundered the southern United States and Puer ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 11, 2017Videos
When it comes to migration, some animals go on vast treks to get from one part of the world to another. This behavior is ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 25, 2017Plants & Animals
In case you’ve never heard of a terrible practice called shark finning, it’s essentially where people catch ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 20, 2017Plants & Animals
In an allusion to the famous underwater lost city of Atlantis, scientists have dubbed the recently found acropolis of Gl ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 14, 2017Videos
Parkinson's Disease gets in the way of many people's lives, but a researcher named Haiyan Zhang with Microsoft invented ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 30, 2017Earth & The Environment
On August 13, Ecuadorian authorities succeeded in interrupting the biggest heist known to the treasured Galapagos Island ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 19, 2017Videos
It wasn't very long ago that George Burgess, the Director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, explained why shark ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 18, 2017Plants & Animals
Animal conservation researchers are making history by performing the first ever major health assessment of endangered wh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 17, 2017Plants & Animals
When you go to the beach and happen upon an unsuspecting baby marine animal in distress, you should probably leave it al ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 13, 2017Videos
Popular movies, like Jaws, have notoriously given sharks a bad rap for being dangerous to humans. Because of the horror ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 08, 2017Plants & Animals
According to researchers from Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI), the shortfin ma ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 27, 2017Plants & Animals
Even though sharks are often revered as large, scary fish with massive teeth made for eating beach-goers and ocean swimm ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 26, 2017Plants & Animals
The first thing that comes to mind when people hear the word “shark” is a large fish with massive teeth that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 25, 2017Plants & Animals
New Jersey-based charter boat fishers got their five minutes of fame during this annual Shark Week after catching what i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 19, 2017Plants & Animals
Not all sharks swallow their food in the same way, especially those that rely on suction feeding, and researchers from B ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 30, 2017Videos
You can tell a lot from an animal's teeth. They can tell an animal's age or scientific group classification. They can te ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 16, 2017Plants & Animals
When you’re a fisherman, chances are you’ll come across some interesting things every so often when you reel ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 12, 2017Plants & Animals
Given the nature of various whale species today, which have varying appetites ranging from krill to larger fish dependin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 16, 2017Videos
In this video, evolutionary biologist Patty Brennan discusses her research, which focuses on understanding the myriad ge ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 12, 2017Plants & Animals
New Zealand has experienced a massive pilot whale stranding on the 5km-long (three mile-long) beach called Farewell Spit ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 17, 2017Videos
Sharks have special hearing mechanisms throughout their entire body. A shark's inner ear is specially tuned to pick up l ...Written By: Jennifer EllisJAN 07, 2017Plants & Animals
A Russian fisherman’s photographs have gone viral these last few weeks as he shared numerous photographs of what a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 27, 2016Plants & Animals
Killer whales have a good reputation with humans as being large and friendly sea mammals, and they’ve been known t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 06, 2016Plants & Animals
A 21-year-old man from Florida, identified as Granger Ray Wooten, is now facing misdemeanor charges after witnesses told ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2017
Earth & The Environment
We are only just starting to understand the impacts of the hurricanes that plundered the southern United States and Puer
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 11, 2017
Videos
When it comes to migration, some animals go on vast treks to get from one part of the world to another. This behavior is
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2017
Plants & Animals
In case you’ve never heard of a terrible practice called shark finning, it’s essentially where people catch
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2017
Plants & Animals
In an allusion to the famous underwater lost city of Atlantis, scientists have dubbed the recently found acropolis of Gl
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 14, 2017
Videos
Parkinson's Disease gets in the way of many people's lives, but a researcher named Haiyan Zhang with Microsoft invented
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 30, 2017
Earth & The Environment
On August 13, Ecuadorian authorities succeeded in interrupting the biggest heist known to the treasured Galapagos Island
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 19, 2017
Videos
It wasn't very long ago that George Burgess, the Director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, explained why shark
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animal conservation researchers are making history by performing the first ever major health assessment of endangered wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 17, 2017
Plants & Animals
When you go to the beach and happen upon an unsuspecting baby marine animal in distress, you should probably leave it al
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 13, 2017
Videos
Popular movies, like Jaws, have notoriously given sharks a bad rap for being dangerous to humans. Because of the horror
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 08, 2017
Plants & Animals
According to researchers from Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI), the shortfin ma
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2017
Plants & Animals
Even though sharks are often revered as large, scary fish with massive teeth made for eating beach-goers and ocean swimm
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 26, 2017
Plants & Animals
The first thing that comes to mind when people hear the word “shark” is a large fish with massive teeth that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 25, 2017
Plants & Animals
New Jersey-based charter boat fishers got their five minutes of fame during this annual Shark Week after catching what i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
Not all sharks swallow their food in the same way, especially those that rely on suction feeding, and researchers from B
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 30, 2017
Videos
You can tell a lot from an animal's teeth. They can tell an animal's age or scientific group classification. They can te
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 16, 2017
Plants & Animals
When you’re a fisherman, chances are you’ll come across some interesting things every so often when you reel
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 12, 2017
Plants & Animals
Given the nature of various whale species today, which have varying appetites ranging from krill to larger fish dependin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 16, 2017
Videos
In this video, evolutionary biologist Patty Brennan discusses her research, which focuses on understanding the myriad ge
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 12, 2017
Plants & Animals
New Zealand has experienced a massive pilot whale stranding on the 5km-long (three mile-long) beach called Farewell Spit
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 17, 2017
Videos
Sharks have special hearing mechanisms throughout their entire body. A shark's inner ear is specially tuned to pick up l
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
JAN 07, 2017
Plants & Animals
A Russian fisherman’s photographs have gone viral these last few weeks as he shared numerous photographs of what a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 27, 2016
Plants & Animals
Killer whales have a good reputation with humans as being large and friendly sea mammals, and they’ve been known t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 06, 2016
Plants & Animals
A 21-year-old man from Florida, identified as Granger Ray Wooten, is now facing misdemeanor charges after witnesses told
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard