A shark's skin is made up of thousands of armor-like scales, known as denticles. Their shape and alignment reduce drag, stop algal attachment and can even seriously harm prey by contact alone. But now ...
A shark's bite may kill prey, but it's the teeth covering its body that make the fish such a good hunter, new research suggests. Sharks are covered in flexible scales—nearly invisible to the human eye ...
Scientists recently made news by using fossil shark scales to reconstruct shark communities from millions of years ago. At the same time, an international team of researchers led by UC Santa Barbara ...
Scientists recently made news by using fossil shark scales to reconstruct shark communities from millions of years ago. At the same time, an international team of researchers led by UC Santa Barbara ...
Scientists recently made news by using fossil shark scales to reconstruct shark communities from millions of years ago. At the same time, an international team of researchers led by UC Santa Barbara ...
Laboratory experiments suggest the tooth-like scales of the puffadder shyshark can be degraded by acidifying oceans Graeme Kruger / flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Shark skin is seriously tough. Blanketing ...
Do sharks offer a key to fighting deadly bacteria? The White House unveiled a new campaign Friday to contain drug-resistant bacteria known as “superbugs,” and one of the unlikely resources that ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Believe it or not, this is sharkskin. And it's a little different from your typical fishy scales. It's made up of thousands of dermal denticles, the ...
Capable of swimming at speeds of up to 74 km/h (46 mph), the shortfin mako is the world's fastest species of shark. Scientists now have a new understanding of how it's able to reach such speeds, and ...
Scientists recently made news by using fossil shark scales to reconstruct shark communities from millions of years ago. Scientists recently made news by using fossil shark scales to reconstruct shark ...