A shark's skin is made up of thousands of armor-like scales, known as denticles. Their shape and alignment reduce drag, stop algal attachment and can even kill prey. But now humans are using that same ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laboratory experiments suggest the tooth-like scales of the puffadder shyshark can be degraded by acidifying oceans Graeme Kruger / flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Shark skin is seriously tough. Blanketing ...
Sharks are the consummate survivors. They've been around for more than 400 million years, surviving all five of the major mass extinctions in Earth's history. But the animals almost disappeared ...
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