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 ...
MCAF Fellow Andrés López holds a scalloped hammerhead shark that has been tagged and is about to be released. Andrés is Co-Founder and Director of Misión Tiburón, a nonprofit organization ...
Scalloped hammerheads prefer tropical and temperate oceans. But as the oceans heat up, they're moving further south—just as we're seeing in Western Australia, where these timid sharks are now ...
The great hammerhead is threatened by the shark fin trade and bycatch (unwanted fish captured as a byproduct of commercial fishing). The winghead population is declining due to overfishing and net ...
But ongoing efforts to identify shark “hotspots” across the oceans could help improve their chances of survival in future. At particular risk is the scalloped hammerhead shark, whose young ...
to gauge the reaction of lemon sharks (one tried to bite him). An associate research behaviorist at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California at Davis, Klimley has studied scalloped ...
A team of researchers including FIU shark biologists Diego Cardeñosa and Yannis Papastamatiou, tracked the movements of scalloped bonnetheads inside a marine protected area (MPA) along the ...
and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat ...