At different life stages, sand tiger shark teeth change in morphology. The shifting tooth shape might reflect changes in their diet. I am using microtomography (micro-CT) to image the teeth in 3D and ...

As the Fourth of July holiday approaches and families are planning beach time, some people on Long Island have lingering fears of the ocean.

Some of the teeth were extremely large, suggesting these ancient Antarctic sand tigers were larger than today’s sand tiger shark, Carcharias taurus, which can grow to about 10 feet long.

Tens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, gliding over a thriving marine ecosystem on the seafloor below. All that remains of them today is ...

Researchers noted that North Carolina had a high population of horny sand tiger sharks, often finding them breeding there. “The presence of stages 1 and 2 mating wounds on sand tiger sharks in ...

A sand tiger shark swims inside a tank at Madrid's Zoo Aquarium. There are only 29 records of unprovoked sand tiger bites and none of those ended with a person dying. A sand tiger shark swims ...

This is a sand tiger shark photographed in North Carolina. ... , published Jan. 13, set out to see if increased “ocean acidification and warming” might have a corrosive effect on sharks’ teeth.

Want to know what a sand tiger shark has been eating? Look to its teeth. Peter Pinnock / Alamy Stock Photo. This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in ...

Sand tiger sharks don’t look like the friendliest bunch. They’ve got “big gnarly teeth and really thick, stout bodies,” as Hap Fatzinger of the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Tens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, gliding over a thriving marine ecosystem on the seafloor below. All that remains ...

In 2018, a small shark tooth was pulled from a 13-year-old boy’s leg after he was bitten by a shark in New York. ... A sand tiger shark, Carcharias taurus. Laura College.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sora Kim, University of California, Merced (THE CONVERSATION) Tens of million years… ...