How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark?
How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark?.....»»
Spiral shark intestines work like Nikola Tesla’s water valve, study finds
Tesla's valve let fluid flow in one direction with no back flow or moving parts. Enlarge / A CT scan image of the spiral intestine of a Pacific spiny dogfish shark (Squalus suckleyi). The beginning of the intestine is on the left, and the end is.....»»
Sharks, lies, and videotape: Scientists document many problems with Shark Week, marine biology"s biggest stage
Shark Week is many things. First and foremost, it's a week of shark-themed documentary programming on the Discovery Channel. Now in its 33rd year, it's the longest-running cable event in history. It's the biggest audience that marine biologists and o.....»»
Ars AI headline experiment finale—we came, we saw, we used a lot of compute time
Turns out it's really hard to make a machine-learning model to evaluate headlines. Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was t.....»»
New 3D images of shark intestines show they function like Nikola Tesla"s valve
Contrary to what popular media portrays, we actually don't know much about what sharks eat. Even less is known about how they digest their food, and the role they play in the larger ocean ecosystem......»»
Sharks in Costa Brava: evidence of an ongoing decline
Some shark species, such as the basing shark and the spiny dogfish, are in populational decline in the Costa Brava, and even blackspotted smooth-hounds can have disappeared due to the fishing pressure of this marine region in the Catalan coasts. The.....»»
Monster shark movies harm shark conservation efforts
Undeniably the shark movie to end all shark movies, the 1975 blockbuster "Jaws" not only smashed box office expectations, but forever changed the way we felt about going into the water—and how we think about sharks......»»
Ancient shark teeth lost in Antarctica millions of years ago recorded Earth"s climate history
Tens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, gliding over a thriving marine ecosystem on the seafloor below......»»
Fossil shark scales provide a glimpse of reef predator populations before human impact
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 ecologist Erin Dillon applied the technique to the.....»»
Best 4th of July robot vacuum deals and sales for 2021
Get some much needed help in keeping your floor clean by taking advantage of the 4th of July robot vacuum deals, covering devices from iRobot, Shark, and eufy......»»
The City of David and the sharks" teeth mystery
Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none—in a 2900 year old site in the City of David in Jerusalem. This is at least 80 km from where these fossils would be expected to be found. The.....»»
Cold-case files: Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old victim of shark attack
Young adult male lost an arm and a leg before dying of shock and blood loss. Enlarge / Original excavation photograph of Tsukumo No. 24, a young adult male with evidence of severe trauma consistent with an attack by a white or tiger shark. (cred.....»»
Researchers find 3,000-year-old shark attack victim
Newspapers regularly carry stories of terrifying shark attacks, but in a paper published today, Oxford-led researchers reveal their discovery of a 3,000-year-old victim—attacked by a shark in the Seto Inland Sea of the Japanese archipelago......»»
A study of more than 3,000 sharks has identified the most common South Florida species
The bull shark, a fearsome predator that could kill you with a single bite, turns out to be the fourth-most abundant shark species in South Florida, according to a new study of the region's sharks......»»
Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone
The world's most secure consumer OS is bitten by a garden-variety programming bug. Enlarge (credit: Apple) There’s a bug in iOS that disables Wi-Fi connectivity when devices join a network that uses a booby-trapped name, a researcher disclos.....»»
Save $100 on the Shark HE601 Air Purifier 6
Save $100 on the Shark HE601 Air Purifier 6 at Amazon and eliminate almost 100% of all air pollutants.....»»
Shark IQ Robot R101AE Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum review
With minimal interaction required on your part, it'll keep you focused on other, more pressing matters......»»
School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65 feet, nearly the length of two school buses. Earlier studies had ball-parked the massive predator at abou.....»»
The world saw a shark-pocalypse 19 million years ago, and we don’t know why
Researchers find evidence of a huge shark die-off but aren't sure what happened. Enlarge (credit: Leah D. Rubin) Sharks have been swimming and hunting in the world's oceans for 450 million years, and though their numbers have recently declined.....»»
A shark mystery millions of years in the making
The biggest shark attack in history did not involve humans......»»
Suspected fatal shark attack in New Caledonia
Rescue services in New Caledonia were Thursday searching for the body of a fisherman believed to have been killed by a shark, following a spate of fatal attacks in the South Pacific territory this year......»»