Shark movement and habitat | Mass. gov As a result, there is now predictable access to white sharks in the North Atlantic To study the movement of this species, our Shark Program has tagged more than 120 individual white sharks off the eastern coast of Cape Cod since 2009 These tags show that white sharks move more broadly throughout the North Atlantic than previously thought
Marine Sharks, skates and rays - Marine Directorate general It’s shark week and with over 30 species of sharks, skates and rays recorded in Scottish waters there’s a lot to celebrate! Sharks are part of the elasmobranch family, which also includes skates and rays Elasmobranchs differ from other fish in the sea by having a skeletal structure made out of cartilage as opposed to bone
The global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras - IUCN In the 20 years since the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group’s first status report (2005), much has changed for sharks, rays and chimaeras This report updates our understanding, and the scope of information reflects the scale of these two decades of change The breadth of research topics has expanded, mirroring the inclusion of a greater diversity of species, and attention is being trained on
Facts about Sharks - Ocean Scuba Dive Sharks have been around for a very long time, over hundreds of millions of years in fact! And surprisingly there are still missing facts about sharks and information about this species that we do not know! While many of us may be familiar with some shark species, there are over 400 of them in total
Oceanic Sharks and Rays Face Unprecedented Extinction Risk . . . Media contact: Patricia Roy, [email protected], tel +34 696 905 907 Notes to Editors: The Global Shark Trends Project (GSTP) is a collaboration of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group, Simon Fraser University, James Cook University, and the Georgia Aquarium established with support from the Shark Conservation Fund to assess the extinction risk for chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras)
Have Sharks Existed Longer Than the North Star? | Snopes. com Later, during the Early Jurassic Period (some 195 million years ago), the oldest-known group of modern sharks began to evolve, including the sixgill bluntnose species that's still alive today