Enlarge / Spydro camera image of a bull shark stealing a fish on the team’s line. National Geographic reader comments 34 with Weipa is a small coastal mining town in Queensland, located in northeastern Australia, particularly favored by sports fisherman because of its annual competition, the Weipa Fishing Classic. But in recent years, fishermen have ..
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Enlarge / Artist’s reconstruction of the shark as it once lived. reader comments 19 with Sharks are largely cartilaginous, a body structure that often doesn’t survive fossilization. But in a paper published in the Swiss Journal of Paleontology, scientists describe an entirely new species of primitive shark from the Late Devonian period, a time when ..
reader comments 25 with The largest shark alive today, reaching up to 20 meters long, is the whale shark, a sedate filter feeder. As recently as 4 million years ago, however, sharks of that scale likely included the fast-moving predator megalodon, famous for its utterly enormous jaws and correspondingly huge teeth. Because of incomplete fossil ..
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Enlarge / Original excavation photograph of Tsukumo No. 24, a young adult male with evidence of severe trauma consistent with an attack by a white or tiger shark. Kyoto University reader comments 6 with 6 posters participating Share this story Marine biologists have spent decades counteracting the popular misconception that sharks are aggressive predators that ..
Leah D. Rubin reader comments 44 with 33 posters participating Share this story Sharks have been swimming and hunting in the world’s oceans for 450 million years, and though their numbers have recently declined because of human activity, they’re still with us. But the world once had many more, and many more varieties of, the ..
Hopefully the moonshark (and its ocean-ly ilk) can be saved from this pollution scourge. reader comments 9 with 8 posters participating Share this story For hundreds of millions of years, sharks have been roaming Earth’s oceans making meals out of a huge range of critters, from the whale shark gobbling up tiny krill to the ..
Jaws and its components. reader comments 6 with 6 posters participating Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. If I had predicted a brand new Jaws tabletop game in 2019—one that would actually be excellent—you might have called me crazy. ..
Enlarge / The lighter areas on the skin of this chain cat shark contain a special molecule that absorbs the ocean’s blue light and turns it into green light. David Gruber / iScience reader comments 15 with 14 posters participating Share this story Scientists have figured out why certain species of shark can absorb blue ..