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Thursday Afternoon Dredging: December 15th, 2016

Posted on December 15, 2016December 14, 2016 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet):

  • How thresher sharks use their tails, from this paper by Oliver and friends.
Thresher shark tail whip, from Oliver and friends 2013, "Thresher Sharks Use Tail-Slaps as a Hunting Strategy," PLoS ONE
Thresher shark tail whip, from Oliver and friends 2013, “Thresher Sharks Use Tail-Slaps as a Hunting Strategy,” PLoS ONE
  • Follow Brit Finucci @BritFinucci on twitter! Follow her for awesome photos of her research with deep sea sharks.
  • I love this commerical and I’m pretty sure that you will too.

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New TV show: Deep Sea Mysteries with Paul Clerkin premieres tonight!

Posted on November 15, 2016November 15, 2016 By Guest Writer
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dsc_5896-for-print-twoPaul J. Clerkin is a graduate researcher at the Pacific Shark Research Center of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California. Clerkin specializes in rare and deep-sea chondrichthyans and is focusing on new species descriptions and life histories of poorly understood sharks species. His thesis work is with Dr. David A. Ebert studying sharks encountered during two surveys in the Southern Indian Ocean in 2012 and 2014, a total of 126 days at sea. He has also conducted research for other projects aboard ships in the Bering Sea, South East Atlantic, Philippine Sea, and across the Pacific. He was featured in the “Alien Sharks” series on Shark Week.

This week, Travel Channel is airing a pilot for my new series, Deep Sea Mysteries (“like” our page on Facebook!). In the course of research, I visit extraordinary fishing communities to find and study rare, poorly known and even undescribed species. This show is the first of its kind, different from the Shark Week programs I’ve done in the past. It continues a focus on sharks and other deep-sea animals, but is notably (and pleasantly) more educational. There are more species, more facts, more science, and an emphasis on conservation effort.

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Also, as a travel show, the series combs through the beautiful regions, interesting people and unique stories behind each expedition.

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Tweets from the American Elasmobranch Society: Deepwater Chondrichthyans Symposium

Posted on August 18, 2012August 17, 2012 By David Shiffman
Science

The American Elasmobranch Society is a non-profit professional society focusing on the scientific study and conservation of sharks, skates, and rays. AES members meet each year in a different North American city, and this meeting is the world’s largest annual gathering of shark scientists. AES recently met in Vancouver, British Columbia for the 2012 meeting, and for the first time the event was live-tweeted by meeting attendees, including myself. I’ve organized the best conference tweets by session using Storify. If anyone has any questions or comments about the research presented below, please feel free to share it in the comments section of this blog post.

Here are selected tweets from the Deepwater Chondrichthyans Symposium.

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