Sharks are more sought-after than ever. Yet, recreational anglers have become increasingly irate toward these species, ...
After several bites, the tiger shark captured the diver’s camera in its mouth. The device kept recording as the fish attempted to swallow the camera getting a close look at its gills and razor ...
The scientists who led the study believe the sharks do so by clamping their gills shut to avoid cold water coming into their bodies, a never-before-seen survival strategy. That means the sharks ...
A pregnant shark with wounds on its gills was washed ashore in Barangay Caasinan, Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte and died ...
And they have five, six, or seven gill slits per side, not one per side as in bony fish. Some sharks lay egg cases with developing embryos inside. These sharks are called oviparous (born from an egg).
That is the number one goal, and create distance if you can, but as a last resort, you go for the gills, you go for the eyes. You literally want to shove your thumbs into the shark's eyes.
(Ram ventilators like hammerheads and great whites must swim to pass water over their gills.) So the answer is no, emphatically. There are even some sharks with spiracles, holes on the top of ...
We know that sharks all over the world, even at the Cove in Seaside, like to take a bite out of the occasional human or surfboard. But cameras? Apparently so. While feeding the sharks in February, ...
basking sharks eat tiny organisms called zooplankton. Swimming with their three-foot-wide mouths agape allows them to take in water and filter out plankton using gill rakers, special organs that ...
The frilled shark lives deep near the bottom of the ocean, avoiding the attention of the media. It gets its name from the six sets of frilly gills that sit like a collar behind its head.