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Learn more about the tiny crystalline dermal denticles, tooth-like scales that allow the blue shark to change colors.
A new study on the blue shark (Prionace glauca) has uncovered an intricate nanostructure within its skin that not only ...
Blue sharks possess a secret hidden in their skin: a sophisticated arrangement of microscopic crystals and pigments that ...
New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces ...
Blue sharks can change colour like chameleon, scientists find - Study finds skin colour of blue shark grows darker when it ...
The team are also conducting ongoing research into the equally enigmatic blue colouration of the blue shark (Prionace glauca).
A dead male blue shark (Prionace glauca) was found washed ashore in Barangay Lipit here on Saturday morning, prompting a ...
Blue Sharks’ Freaky Tooth-Skin Makes It Possible For Them To Change Color To Green And Even Gold It's the one thing we didn't expect a blue shark to do.
They came from an estimated 10,000 blue (Prionace glauca) and anequim or shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) sharks, Brazil’s federal environmental agency IBAMA said in a news release.
Researchers took swabs of the shark's bite wounds and found they were "loaded" with orca DNA. (Image credit: Ben Johnstone) Orcas in these waters are known to kill blue sharks (Prionace glauca ...
New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue coloration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential ...
Blue sharks get their glow from hidden nanocrystals — and those same structures might let them subtly change color under ...