#elasmobranchs — Public Fediverse posts

🦈 Every scar on a shark tells a story of survival, struggle, and resilience. From predator bites to human impacts, these marks reveal hidden struggles of the ocean and help scientists track shark lives.

🌊 Dive into the full article here: 📖 https://TPC8.short.gy/f6qGyzjE

Each scar is a record of resilience, etched on the skin of the sea’s greatest wanderers.

#Sharks #MarineScience #Ocean #Conservation #Wildlife #Biodiversity #MarineBiology #ScienceCommunication #Elasmobranchs #OceanLife #TPC8

🦈 Every scar on a shark tells a story of survival, struggle, and resilience. From predator bites to human impacts, these marks reveal hidden struggles of the ocean and help scientists track shark lives.

🌊 Dive into the full article here: 📖 https://TPC8.short.gy/f6qGyzjE

Each scar is a record of resilience, etched on the skin of the sea’s greatest wanderers.

#Sharks #MarineScience #Ocean #Conservation #Wildlife #Biodiversity #MarineBiology #ScienceCommunication #Elasmobranchs #OceanLife #TPC8

#Scientists find banded sand #catsharks hiding inside sea sponges https://phys.org/news/2023-09-scientists-banded-sand-catsharks-sea.html

#Sharks checking in to the #sponge hotel: first internal use of #sponges of the genus #Agelas and family #Irciniidae by banded sand catsharks #Atelomycterus fasciatus. By Helen O'Neill et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.15554

"Some bony #fish use sponges as #microhabitats. However, this behavior had never been seen before in sharks or other #elasmobranchs, the group including sharks, #rays, #skates, #sawfish"

#Scientists find banded sand #catsharks hiding inside sea sponges https://phys.org/news/2023-09-scientists-banded-sand-catsharks-sea.html

#Sharks checking in to the #sponge hotel: first internal use of #sponges of the genus #Agelas and family #Irciniidae by banded sand catsharks #Atelomycterus fasciatus. By Helen O'Neill et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.15554

"Some bony #fish use sponges as #microhabitats. However, this behavior had never been seen before in sharks or other #elasmobranchs, the group including sharks, #rays, #skates, #sawfish"

#Devonian #Shark-Like #Fish Had Unique Sensory Specialization
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/maghriboselache-mohamezanei-11800.html paper: https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-023-00266-6

Maghriboselache mohamezane is distinguished from all other early #sharks by the possession of a spectacularly broad, cartilage-enclosed, snout with widely spaced, large nasal capsules. This suggests sensory specialization approaching that of extant broad-rostrum #elasmobranchs.