Student Scientists Tag a Baby Lemon Shark. Clip: Episode 4 | 2m 31s. Just after birth, the newborn lemon sharks are measured, tagged and a DNA sample is taken before the young sharks are returned ...

So the scientists began tagging baby and toddler lemon sharks in 1995, including a few that were 1 or 2 years old at the time. Each shark was fitted with a transponder, and a tissue sample was ...

Life Stunning picture shows a baby lemon shark learning the ropes. Lemon sharks grow up in the waters around mangrove forests, giving them protection and a place to learn to hunt.

Meanwhile, the sicklefin lemon shark (Negaprion acutidens) is a stocky, yellowish shark found in the same region, common on coral reefs as well as in shallow, sandy-bottom lagoons, and mangrove ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla., March 3 (UPI) --Visitors to a Florida beach said they were surprised to discover the water filled with dozens of baby lemon sharks.Beach-goers in New Smyrna Beach said they ...

Mother lemon sharks 'home' to their birthplace to give birth Date: December 5, 2013 Source: Stony Brook University Summary: Research conducted in Bimini in The Bahamas spanning almost two decades ...

No adults allowed! Lemon sharks learn to live and hunt in Caribbean mangrove forest nurseries and The Americas takes us inside.

MIAMI, Oct. 6 (UPI) --A Florida man who spent about a month searching for a shark nursery shared video of the baby lemon sharks he encountered at the end of his journey.

In 1995, the researchers captured, tagged and released more than 2,000 baby sharks in the lagoon in Bimini, a set of islands located 53 miles (81 kilometers) east of Miami.

The lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) is one of many species in the Caribbean that use a nursery, and much of what is known about their reproduction and nursery areas is from long-term studies ...

"We found that newborn sharks captured in the mid-1990s left the safety of the islands when they were between five and eight years old," biologist Kevin Feldheim, of The Field Museum in Chicago, ...