Shortfin makos are the fastest sharks in the sea, but they're failing to outpace the scale of overfishing that is driving ...
From iconic mako sharks to little-known sea cucumbers, these imperiled creatures need safeguards now.” The Center’s petition also requests listing of three hammerhead shark species, following another ...
Dr. Peter Klimley is a man who has held his breath and dived down 100 feet to hand-tag hammerhead sharks with a dart gun. He has even dressed up as a killer whale, complete with towering black ...
as well as several species of hammerhead sharks and 37 species of guitarfish. At CoP18 in August 2019, 18 species of sharks and rays—including shortfin and longfin mako sharks, six species of ...
These majestic sharks gather in their hundreds at huge volcanic seamounts that project out of the seabed. They come here to be cleaned and to find a mate, circling the seamount in a sort of ...
This is known as oophagy ('egg eating') and occurs in species including the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus ... their nutrition through this link. Hammerhead (family Sphyrnidae), blue (Prionace ...
I was once at the surface playing low-frequency sounds over a speaker to attract sharks. A hammerhead shot up from beneath me, rushing at me at perhaps 30 feet a second before he suddenly turned ...