Search Results for: Sharks

Animals

This marine biologist is on a mission to save endangered rays

Jessica Pate and the Florida Manta Project confirm that endangered mantas are mating and sicklefin devils are migrating along the East Coast.

Paleontology

Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our vertebrate ancestors

New fossils are revealing the earliest jawed vertebrates — a group that encompasses 99 percent of all living vertebrates on Earth, including humans.

Ecosystems

Marjorie Weber explores plant-protecting ants and other wonders of evolution

Cooperation across the tree of life is an understudied driver of evolution and biodiversity, Marjorie Weber says.

Animals

Northern elephant seals sleep just two hours a day at sea

The marine mammals have truly awesome stamina for staying awake, sleeping only minutes at a time on months-long trips at sea.

Physics

Julian Muñoz has a ‘ruler’ that could size up the early universe

The measurement tool could lay out a distance scale for cosmic dawn —and offer clues to the nature of dark matter.

Science & Society

Here are 7 new science museums and exhibitions to visit in 2023

The Grand Egyptian Museum is slated to open, as well as new exhibitions dedicated to space travel, the Galápagos Islands and more.

Animals

A hammerhead shark baby boom near Florida hints at a historic nursery

Finding an endangered shark nursery in a vast ocean is like finding a needle in a haystack. But that’s just what scientists did near Miami.

Anthropology

A partial skeleton reveals the world’s oldest known shark attack

An ancient shark bite victim died quickly, before his body was recovered and buried, a new study finds.

Anthropology

A skeleton from Peru vies for the title of oldest known shark attack victim

The 6,000-year-old remains of a teen with a missing leg and tell-tale bite marks came to light after news of a 3,000-year-old victim in Japan surfaced.

Paleontology

Something mysteriously wiped out about 90 percent of sharks 19 million years ago

Deep sediments beneath the Pacific Ocean revealed a mystery: a massive shark die-off with no obvious cause.

Animals

Scientists vacuumed animal DNA out of thin air for the first time

The ability to sniff out animals’ airborne genetic material has been on researchers’ wish list for over a decade.

Paleontology

An ancient shark’s weird fins helped it glide like a manta ray

Nicknamed eagle shark, the newly discovered ancient creature achieved underwater flight 30 million years before the first rays.