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A team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the elephant shark, a curious-looking fish with a snout resembling the end of an elephant`s trunk.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 09:52
Environmentalists hailed Monday a Chinese government ban on serving shark`s fin, bird`s nest soup and other wild animal products at official functions, saying it will set a precedent that will help protect endangered species.
Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 10:45
Researchers have discovered that many of the endangered great white shark`s proteins involved in an array of different functions- including metabolism- match humans more closely than they do zebrafish, the quintessential fish model.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 13:56
A teenager has been killed by a shark off Australia`s east coast. It is the second fatal shark attack in Australia this month.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 16:49
New Zealand is to ban shark finning in its waters within two years, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy announced today.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 15:34
Scientists have discovered a remarkable new species of a rare hammerhead shark in South Carolina.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 11:54
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A commercial diver suffered "substantial" injuries after being attacked by a shark off remote Western Australia, officials said today, with reports describing it as his second mauling in a decade.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 14:55
The Spanish Oceanography Institute has discovered in the waters of the Canary Islands a large deposit of fossils of a shark that became extinct two million years ago.
Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013, 20:03
A new species of shark that "walks" along the seabed using its fins as tiny legs has been discovered in eastern Indonesia, an environmental group said on Friday.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 21:19
A `walking shark` has been discovered by scientists off the coast of Indonesia.
Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 22:30
India Friday put a ban on the removal of shark fins on board a vessel on the sea in a move to stop the inhuman hunting of sharks.
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