Last week a broadnose sevengill shark washed ashore our Australian National Fish Collection facility, donating its body to science.
Through a multi-group investigation based around northern Australia, we've identified a new species, one of the largest known stingrays.
An autonomous torpedo shaped underwater glider has just completed a trip through the eastern waters of the Great Australian Bight, collecting valuable data on the ocean.
Our team at the Ningaloo reef have been busy this past year, tagging 60 animals and surveying 7 kilometres of reef, and 12,000 hectares of deep habitat!
A team of our scientists has caught and tagged the first ever adult Speartooth Shark specimens in the waterways of Cape York.
For 8 days in January, Newcastle beaches were closed while sharks 'plagued the coastline'. Was the frenzy warranted? No, says our resident shark expert.
Counting sharks isn’t quite like counting sheep – you can’t just sit underwater going ‘One, two, three …’ and hope […]
All evidence suggests that the tag had been eaten by another white shark.
By Bryony Bennett White sharks migrate thousands of kilometres, mostly out of sight and underwater. This elusive lifestyle – birth, […]
It’s April 2011, summer is well and truly over and Betty*, a juvenile white shark, has just surfaced off […]
By Ross Daley, Research Project Leader Harrisson’s Dogfish (Centrophorus harrissoni) is a small shark that occupies a narrow strip of […]
Forget houses on the moon, our scientists are using 3D printing to build better fish tags. We use tags to […]
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