According to Lawless, synthetic cuttlefish ink compounds could be made and distributed in water to keep sharks away from ...

The ink of the cuttlefish could transform how sharks are deterred from hunting near swimmers, according to new research.

White shark liver is on Australian killer whales' menu, genomic evidence confirms Date: February 1, 2025 Source: Flinders University Summary: DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia ...

The exhausted whale was finally freed on Friday afternoon, with rescuers continuing to monitor its movements. A member of the public first spotted the distressed whale at around 8.30am on Thursday and ...

Following stricter national regulations on whale shark conservation introduced in November last year, the government of Maldives has now moved to enforce propeller guards on all excursion boats within ...

This process uncovered the DNA of two animals: orcas, also known as killer whales, and broadnose sevengill sharks. Orca DNA ...

A humpback whale has got into difficulty after becoming entangled in rope at a fish farm off Skye. Organic Sea Harvest said it had suspended normal operations at its Invertote site in the north of ...

“Kauri dieback is a natural disaster. I’m no biologist, but I can confidently say a whale-song mix-tape isn’t going to stop it. Nor are pagan potions made from whale-oil on the ...

The study analyzed satellite tracking data from 78 whale sharks tagged over 14 years at Ningaloo Reef and Shark Bay, two well-known aggregation sites off the Western Australian coast.

The study — undertaken by scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the University of Western Australia — looked at satellite data from 78 tracked whale sharks over the past 14 ...

Different sharks use different strategies to eat. Like many actual whales, the whale shark filter-feeds, straining teeny plankton from up to 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of filtered water ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the nearly complete fossil of a colossal shark that prowled the ancient seas some nine million years ago. The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis ...