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For the first time, researchers have been able to record in near real-time the migration of a pregnant scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador to Isla ...
It took Florida International University researchers years to separate Sphyrna alleni, also known as the shovelbill shark, ...
It was a report many were looking forward to - whether or not the United States National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) would decide for or against adding the great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna ...
Bonnethead sharks are found in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and were previously believed to represent one species, ...
SEE MORE Florida International University researcher Cindy Gonzalez tags a hammerhead shark species called shovelbill, or Sphyrna alleni. (Mays Family Foundation Photo) Nine years after throwing ...
It is a delicate female Sphyrna corona, the world’s smallest hammerhead species, and goes by the local name cornuda amarilla — yellow hammerhead — because of the color of its fins and the ...
Great hammerheads (Sphyrna mokarran) have been recorded making 3,000-kilometer journeys between Bimini, the Bahamas and offshore Virginia. But tracking tags and tissue samples from hammerheads in ...
In the summers of 2020 and 2021, researchers recorded 54 female great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) and one whose sex could not be determined at the two atolls, which are 9 miles (15 ...
There are 10 species of sharks in the Sphyrnidae family, all of them but one falling into the genus Sphyrna, a Greek word that means “hammer”—an apt description for the head shape of these ...
It is a delicate female Sphyrna corona, the world’s smallest hammerhead species, and goes by the local name cornuda amarilla — yellow hammerhead — because of the color of its fins and the edges of its ...