Conservation success or pests? Seals spark passionate debate
Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal.
Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal.
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2020
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The great white shark has been in the Mediterranean for 3.2 million years, way longer than researchers have hypothesized until now. The white sharks currently living in the Mediterranean are genetically closer to those of ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2020
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'No-take' marine reserves—where fishing is banned—can reverse the decline in the world's coral reef shark populations caused by overfishing, according to an Australian study.
Ecology
Jan 23, 2020
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A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding the remarkable resilience of shark wounds to infection.
Ecology
Nov 4, 2019
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Sharks—the sea's top predators for millions of years—are at risk of disappearing from the Mediterranean as overfishing and plastic pollution choke populations of the endangered hunters, conservationists warned Friday.
Ecology
Jul 12, 2019
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Mackerel sharks are large, fast-swimming apex predators that include Hollywood heavy-hitters like great whites (Jaws), mako (Deep Blue Sea) and the now-extinct Megalodon (The Meg). One of the smallest mackerel sharks is the ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2019
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Large numbers of dugongs, sea snakes and other marine animals disappeared from the UNESCO World Heritage Site Shark Bay, Western Australia, after a heat wave devastated seagrass meadows, according to recently released research.
Ecology
Apr 29, 2019
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They increasingly hunt in the waters off Cape Cod, and sometimes humans get in their way. Last summer, scientist Greg Skomal was one of them.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2019
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A study mapping the eastern Australian grey nurse shark population has found it has declined rapidly over the last few decades, with only 400 breeding sharks left, too few to maintain a healthy population.
Ecology
Feb 5, 2019
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Much of the Great Barrier Reef is legally protected in an effort to conserve and rebuild the fragile marine environment. Marine reserves are considered the gold standard for conservation, and often shape our perception of ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2019
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