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"To our knowledge, this species has never been observed in the wild." Researchers celebrate after capturing video of shark ...
One glow-in-the-dark animal is the swell shark. Swell sharks are shy shark species that aren't dangerous. Swell sharks are bioflourescent, which is why they glow. But that's not the only trick ...
The footage was taken during a survey of Timor-Leste’s deep sea environment, a South-East Asian nation that takes up half the ...
Scientists have captured the first footage of an elusive deep sea shark inhabiting the waters near Southeast Asia ’s ...
This shark gets its name from an unusual behavior it displays when threatened by a predator. When threatened, the swell shark swallows vast amounts of seawater, which causes its belly to swell and ...
These swell sharks, which likely represent a new species, were collected during the deep sea portion of the California Academy of Sciences' 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition from a depth of ...
Stretch of coast between Del Mar and La Jolla has been a seasonal hot spot for great white shark sightings, and could be ...
Parthogenesis is nothing new in the animal kingdom: growth of embryos without fertilization has been described in every vertebrate class besides mammals, including in a handful of shark species. But ...
The pufferfish lives quite happily without a working version of the organ. Ferreira was able to get live sargassum fish and swell sharks into the lab relatively easily. But when the pandemic hit a ...