Andrew Colefax July 22, 2020 Lifeguards with drones keep us (and sharks) safe, and beach-goers agree Recent shark-related deaths fuel the debate around the best way to keep people safe in the water, without hurting marine wildlife.

Tanya Houppermans April 28, 2020 Scientists at work: Uncovering the mystery of when and where sharks give birth Researchers are using a newly developed satellite tag to study previously unknown aspects of tiger shark reproduction. This approach could be used on other difficult-to-study shark species.

NOAA SWFSC/Flickr March 24, 2020 Tagging data show that blue sharks are true globalists You won't see a blue shark near the beach, but thanks to 50 years of tagging data, scientists are learning about their wide-ranging lives at sea.

Rory Cooper, Kyle Martin & Amin Garbout/Natural History Museum London December 19, 2019 Acidic oceans are corroding the tooth-like scales of shark skin Shark skin is composed of millions of tiny scales, which have a similar chemical composition to human teeth.

Ben Rushton/AAP December 3, 2019 Shark nets are destructive and don’t keep you safe – let’s invest in lifeguards Weeks out from summer, new research says there is no evidence shark nets keep us safe from sharks.

Jonathan Fisher September 17, 2019 Huge sharks, tiny plankton: Exploring the changing Arctic from an icebreaker The eastern Arctic and sub-Arctic marine areas of Canada are changing rapidly under climate change.

Wayne Jones August 27, 2019 Poor Filipino fishermen are making millions protecting whale sharks Former fishermen in the Philippines are lifting their families out of poverty through whale shark tourism.

Marcel Ekkel/Flickr August 10, 2020 Shark Week looms, but don’t panic Media coverage of sharks often exaggerates risks to people, but more than 500 shark species have never been known to attack humans, and there's lots to learn about them.

Shin Arunrugstichai May 21, 2019 From sharks in seagrass to manatees in mangroves, we’ve found large marine species in some surprising places Far more megafauna species use coastal wetlands than we thought. And it affects the way we need to address the extinction crisis.

Terry Goss/Wikimedia February 28, 2019 Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights we need libraries of genetic data Why do scientists spend so much time and money mapping the DNA of species like white sharks? Single studies may offer insights, but the real payoff comes in comparing many species to each other.

Morne Hardenberg/Shark Explorers February 4, 2019 Are sharks being attacked by killer whales off Cape Town’s coast? The False Bay ocean food chain in Cape Town began to change significantly in 2015 with the appearance of shark-eating killer whales.

Simon Gingins January 31, 2019 The presence of people is slowing shark recovery on the Great Barrier Reef Banning fishing in no-take marine reserves on the Great Barrier Reef does not protect sharks as well as received wisdom would tell you.

Courtesy of Nicole McLachlan December 14, 2018 Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland’s coast Some media have reported shark numbers at 'plague proportions' in Australian waters. But a new analysis suggests the opposite: species such as hammerheads and white sharks have plummeted in number.

Carlos García-Quijano September 27, 2018 After a fatal shark attack on Cape Cod, will the reaction be coexistence or culling? The return of white sharks to Cape Cod, Massachusetts was a tourism success story – until a shark killed a swimmer. Can the Cape's residents and visitors learn to share the ocean with these apex predators?

Ruth H. Leeney September 17, 2018 Education can help protect sawfishes in Mozambique and Madagascar Africa's remaining sawfishes are found along the coasts of Madagascar and Mozambique. But they are under threat.