Each summer, for several years in a row, a tabloid would send me a picture of a shark fin photographed off Cornwall and ask if it was a Great White. “No,” I would patiently explain, “it is a harmless basking…
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The Northern River Shark (Glyphis garricki) is one of the rarest species of shark in the world. It is known only from a small number of locations in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Papua…
The diving behaviour of sharks has been shown to be affected by the moon, water temperature and time of day. Research on…
Patterns in female great white shark migration patterns are becoming clearer, thanks to new research. California-based researchers…
The energy and food intake needs of white sharks are much higher than previously thought. White sharks were previously believed…
Each year around 100 million sharks are killed for their fins. The sharks are often pulled from the water, their fins are sliced off and they are thrown back in to drown. The industry is built on the high…
An estimated 100 million sharks are killed each year, according to a new report. New estimates on shark fishing have stated…
Two years ago a recreational fisherman, Steve Downs, caught two sharks of unknown origin. Researchers at the University of…
Nearly a fifth of “shark attacks” since 1979 did not involve injuries, researchers from University of Sydney have found…
Things could not be harder for the beach-goers of Western Australia. Following the worst spate of shark-related fatalities ever recorded, it is summer once again. Shark sightings are up and there is always…
Baby sharks stop moving in their eggs to hide from predators, researchers from the University of Western Australia have found…
Whether it’s from fishing and by-catch, finning or even culling, global shark populations are under a growing threat from human activity. But how successful is international law at protecting some of the…
While whale sharks, the world’s largest fish, have the ability to dive hundreds of metres below the ocean surface, it has…
The great shark debate continues in Australia as summer approaches. Shark bites on bathers and surfers are a particularly sensitive reality. These are personal and community-wide tragedies that implore…
The WA Premier Colin Barnett and Fisheries Minister Norman Moore recently announced the Government will allocate $6.85-million for its “shark mitigation” strategy, in response to the recent wave of sharks…
We’ve known since early last year that sharks are most likely colour-blind. But today, in a paper published in Biology Letters by our team at UWA, we explain why this is the case. It’s a finding we believe…
The most recent fatal encounter between a shark and a surfer off the coast of Western Australia is a tragic loss of human life. It prompted a Western Australian government reaction to “hunt and kill” the…
Another critically endangered grey nurse shark has washed up on a northern NSW beach, with its fins removed. Shark fins are valued at more than A$400 per kilogram. This high market value encourages the…
The latest fatal shark bite on a surfer, north of Perth, is another in a string of terrible and random tragedies that have befallen Western Australia in the past two years. This seems to be an escalating…
Australia has two distinct populations of white sharks in the East and West of Australia, showing that while they travel…
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Sydney
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Marine Biologist, South African National Parks (SANParks); Honorary Research Associate, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
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Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Wollongong
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Senior Research Fellow, Conservation Science, University of Oxford; Bangor University
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Professor of Marine Fisheries Ecology, Macquarie University
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Shark biologist, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Florida
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Director, Florida Program for Shark Research and Coordinator of Museum Operations, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
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Director, Florida Program for Shark Research, University of Florida
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Faculty Research Associate in Marine Biology, Arizona State University
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Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education and Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University