Sharkophile

The latest shark news, photos and videos

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Pair of recently-tagged great white sharks make way to Florida

Two of Ocearch’s latest recipients of satellite tracking equipment have already pinged in off the coast of Florida less than two months after being tagged off the coast of New England. Grey Lady and Miss Costa, a pair of female great whites, were tagged within two days of each other in September off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, […]

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Rare ‘ghost shark’ caught on video for first time

Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California captured the first-ever underwater footage of pointy-nosed blue chimaeras, a rare species of”ghost sharks,” while researching deepwater valleys around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast of Central California. It also marks the first time the species, which was first discovered in 2002 off the coast of New Zealand, had […]

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Extremely rare nurse shark spotted in Caicos

  A diver off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands captured video of an extremely rare creature — a nurse shark with a dotted color scheme. Diver Nate Madden said the shark’s unusual coloring was a result of leucism, a condition that causes the partial loss of pigmentation in the skin, leading to […]

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The Sixth Sense of Sharks

Sharks possess an extraordinary ability to navigate and hunt in water, largely due to their advanced auditory and sensory systems. Although they lack visible external ears, their hearing is exceptionally acute, enabling them to detect a wide range of sounds that are imperceptible to humans. Embedded on either side of a shark’s head are two […]

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Cape Town To Employ Drones As Shark Spotters

The City of Cape Town will add camera-mounted drones to its efforts to keep swimmers at two of South Africa’s busiest beaches, Fish Hoek and Muizenberg. The remotely-operated drones will provide a live video feed of the water below which is used by shark-spotters, who can then warn swimmers about possible sightings. The drones, which will be put […]

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Aurora’s Centaur Locates Great White Sharks off Nantucket Coast

NANTUCKET, Mass.— Aurora recently partnered with OCEARCH, a world-leading marine conservation organization, to provide aerial support locating and tracking great white sharks off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Centaur optionally piloted DA-42 aircraft (OPA) flew above the expedition area in a predetermined flight pattern to help scientists onboard the OCEARCH ship target, identify and track […]

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SWFL playing vital role in sawfish resurgence

PORT OF THE ISLANDS — For thousands of years, the sawfish was one of the most ferocious predators roaming the marshy shorelines of the Florida Peninsula. Fossil records found throughout the state show that the peculiar creature, which is closely related to both sharks and stingrays, and its evolutionary ancestors date back over 10,000 years. […]