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Blue sharks possess a secret hidden in their skin: a sophisticated arrangement of microscopic crystals and pigments that ...
The blue shark (Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin ...
New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces ...
The shark in question is the blue shark (Prionace glauca), famous for being, well, blue.Doesn’t seem so impressive for an animal with such a name, but it’s hard to find true blue in the ...
It’s called a prionace glauca, but to you and me it’s a blue shark, and it’s not very rare and it’s one of the most wide-ranging sharks. Brian Skerry shot this one off the Rhode Island ...
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The team are also conducting ongoing research into the equally enigmatic blue colouration of the blue shark (Prionace glauca). Skin colouration plays a key role in organismal communication, ...
Most travelled shark: A blue shark (Prionace glauca) tagged off New York was recaptured 16 months later off Brazil, 3,740 miles away. Freshwater shark: ...
This particular sea lamprey measured less than a foot long (0.24 m) and was attached to a blue shark (Prionace glauca) in pelagic waters off Rhode Island.Blue sharks are one of the most wide ...
New research into the anatomy of blue sharks reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue colouration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential capacity for colour ...