Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland in Victoria in 2023, the Flinders University-led study identified that killer whales were ...

There are records of about 30 shark attacks in British waters. The most recent was in 2022, when a woman was bitten on the leg by a blue shark as she snorkelled off the coast of Penzance in Cornwall.

DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland ...

DNA evidence has confirmed that killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver—marking the first recorded case ...

At the time, researchers believed they knew what had managed to kill this shark, but they could not confirm it. Now, however, DNA analysis taken from the bite wound has confirmed their suspicions: ...

A new study provides the first DNA evidence that killer whales in Australia hunt white sharks for their nutrient-rich livers.

Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. For the first time, genomic evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver.

Manta and devil rays (mobulids) are filter feeding elasmobranchs with extreme K-selective life histories found circumglobally from temperate to tropical waters. Their vulnerability to fisheries ...

Sharks are susceptible to industrial longline fishing due to their slow life histories and association with targeted tuna stocks. Identifying fished areas with high shark interaction risk is vital to ...