Sharks, skates, and rays possess an extraordinary ability that sets them apart in the marine world: the power to detect faint electric fields. At the heart of this ability lies a network of ...

The Brazilian Guitarfish (Pseudobatos horkelii), Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis) and Daggernose Shark (Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus) are among the Brazilian elasmobranchs facing increased risk of ...

Cestodes, commonly known as tapeworms, constitute a diverse group of parasitic flatworms that have evolved intricate relationships with their elasmobranch hosts – a group that includes sharks, rays ...

A massive trove of global fossil data has revealed variations in how elasmobranch species – sharks, skates, and rays – recovered after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event. Among the ...

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Most fauna in the deep-sea rely upon a drizzle of particles of decaying animals and feces. This marine snow is of low food quality as you might expect death and feces to be. Occasionally, deep-sea ...

Differences in sharks' olfactory systems are of interest not only because of their reputation for having an incredible sense of smell but also because they have been around since before the dinosaurs.

Unexplained and episodic die-offs of the dwarf surf clam, Mulinia lateralis, have been reported on the West Atlantic coast, with such an occurrence in South Carolina in June 2010. A sample of live ...

Matt Ajemian, Ph.D., (in the front) co-author and an assistant research professor at FAU's Harbor Branch and colleague pictured with a critically endangered smalltooth sawfish in the southern Indian ...

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