New forensic technique gives clues about sharks from bite damage
Hit-and-run attacks by sharks can be solved with a new technique that identifies the culprits by the unique chomp they…
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Researchers given glimpse into bull sharks’ movement
Indian River Lagoon, on Florida’s east coast, has historically served as habitat for an abundance of marine life. But human…
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Catch and release
The sun had barely broken over the trees as Jason Romine, a research biologist at the Florida Museum of Natural…
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Bull sharks and rays tracked in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon
Worldwide, there are only 75 known instances of unprovoked bull shark attacks and 23 human fatalities on record in the…
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Conserving Florida’s smalltooth sawfish
Globally, nearly all sawfish species are declining largely due to coastal habitat threats and over-fishing, but dwindling northern populations of…
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Shark research program surfaces valuable information
The Florida Program for Shark Research, directed by the Florida Museum of Natural History’s George H. Burgess, is one of…
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