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9988 ♥ / 22 June, 2012
16 ♥ / 21 June, 2012
willigula: “Shipwrecked sailors attacked by man-eating sharks” - illustration from Sea and Land: An Illustrated History by JW Buel, 1887
12280 ♥ / 21 June, 2012
rhamphotheca: Giant Bullshark Surprises Researchers Don’t worry, the shark was tagged and released. by OurAmazingPlanet staff For scientist Neil Hammerschlag, it was just another Sunday. He was out cruising the reefs near the Florida Keys, hunting for sharks — not as trophies, but for research aimed at keeping them out of display cases and in the water. In many places, these iconic predators are disappearing. A research assistant professor at the University of Miami, and the director of its R. J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program, Hammerschlag spends every other weekend in southern Florida dragging baited, shark-safe lines behind a boat, hoping one of his research subjects will take a bite. When he and his team catch one, they outfit the shark with either a satellite tag or an ID tag, take tiny samples of muscle and fin and a vial’s worth of blood (they check to see if the shark is pregnant), then send the shark on its  way. The whole process takes about five minutes… (read more: OurAmazingPlanet.com)      (photo: Emma Smith)
246 ♥ / 20 June, 2012
16598 ♥ / 14 June, 2012
10021 ♥ / 12 June, 2012
rhamphotheca: ruinedchildhood: Top notch science education…[Video]
25015 ♥ / 5 June, 2012
68382 ♥ / 5 June, 2012
141 ♥ / 4 June, 2012
dearscience: by Ivo Vaessen
87630 ♥ / 29 May, 2012
1888 ♥ / 1 May, 2012
1334 ♥ / 29 April, 2012
94388 ♥ / 17 February, 2012