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Sharks & Rays
Research led by the University of Bath is using the latest technology to find out how these fish are able to sniff out their prey.
A suntan you won't get there. Instead, you can expect lots of incredible tiger shark action hardly matched anywhere else in the world.
Scientists are reporting significant changes in the distribution of coastal fish species in south-east Australia which they say are partly due to climate change.
Amos Nachoum White Shark
Great white numbers increasing off California coast, shark expert proclaims
Toxins produced by red tide events can alter shark brains, resulting in "hyperexcitability" and even death, according to a new study that will appear in the September issue of the journal Aquatic Toxicology.
  • X-Ray Mag #37 - Aug 2010
    It’s early afternoon. The sun is beating down and mosquitoes are humming. Another decent day’s catch is unloaded, men sweating with the effort. If it weren’t for the breeze, the stench would be unbearable. Today’s tally: more than 100 sharks, some weighing close to 1,000 pounds and reaching nearly 20 feet in length. The catch includes leopard (tiger), dusky, hammerhead, nurse, sand sharks and sawfish—nothing unusual in the shallow (15 feet) waters surrounding Big Pine Key.

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X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
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X-Ray Mag #33 - Dec 2009
Cedric Verdier
This book is dedicated to Nitrox rebreather diving and the basic principles and skills that every rebreather diver should know and master. It covers some topics like balance and trim with a rebreather, risk management, and proper Nitrox dive planning.
Lawson Wood
The St.Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Nature Reserve off the south east coast of the Scottish Mainland was founded by the author Lawson Wood.

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From X-Ray Mag

X-Ray Mag #36 - May 2010
Sharks |  
You won’t find Spiny dogfish on most shark diver’s ‘bucket lists’. In fact, the only time that your average diver will come into contact with a...
X-Ray Mag #35 - Apr 2010
Rays | Sharks |  
Los Gigantes is a small fishing community on the west side of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is named for the enormous cliffs that dominate the...
X-Ray Mag #35 - Apr 2010
Rays | Sharks |  
Los Gigantes is a small fishing community on the west side of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is named for the enormous cliffs that dominate the...
X-Ray Mag #33 - Dec 2009
Sharks |  
How to get out of the protective cage and swim with the Great White shark—that’s what Big Animals expeditions founder and leader, Amos Nachoum, helps...
X-Ray Mag #27 - Dec 2008
Profiles | Sharks |  
Valerie Taylor, along with her husband Ron, are two of the true pioneers of underwater photo and video, since their debut in the 1960s.
X-Ray Mag #23 - May 2008
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Why the peculiar head shape of the hammerhead shark developed as it did has been the subject of much speculation. Few other morphological oddities...
X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Rays |  
If you ask a group of people what is a manta, nine out of ten will think of stingrays or those large things that swim in the rivers of Florida. Even...
X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
The boat’s four occupants were spear fishing for Yellowtail. As Mark began to ask the skipper questions, one of the spear fisherman suddenly appeared...
X-Ray Mag #18 - Aug 2007
Just their name, their size, and their menacing looks can evoke feelings of terror, fear and instinctive rejection. However, if you have the...
X-Ray Mag #14 - Dec 2006
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"Stingray kills television host" The headlines soon spread all over the world when the famous Australian philanthropist and television...

In the News archive

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Researchers have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in seven species of sharks and redfish captured in waters off Belize, Florida, Louisiana and Massachusetts.
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Shark Trust and National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, UK announce a ‘Code of Conduct’ for Basking Sharks
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A new discovery helps explain why sharks — one of nature's most dangerous predators — are so good at catching their prey. They smell in stereo to help them home in on dinner.
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In hopes of better understanding the stages of fetal development in sharks, researchers from Brazil's Guaruja Aquarium have literally opened a window into the once elusive world of shark eggs.
The bill prohibits the possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins, which are used in the Chinese delicacy shark fin soup. This law is designed to prevent over fishing that is causing the extinction of sharks.
Shark cartilage was once widely promoted as an anti-cancer agent and is still via the Internet for that purpose, based on the mistaken belief that sharks do not get cancer. But the first clinical trial of a shark cartilage product shows that it has no value at all.
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The ancestor of all hammerhead sharks probably appeared abruptly in Earth's oceans about 20 million years ago and was as big as some contemporary hammerheads, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Two fossil sites in the Isthmus of Panama are yielding evidence that the megalodon - the largest shark that ever lived - established nurseries where pregnant and nursing mothers stayed with their young charges.
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The mystery of why thresher sharks have such huge tails has been solved, the BBC reports
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The breeding ground of the world's largest, prehistoric predator has been discovered in Panama.
Hawaii's state Legislature passed a bill Tuesday banning shark fins from being harvested, sold or owned.
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A great white shark tagged by New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research has set a world record for the deepest known dive at 1200m