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In the late 1970s, workers digging clay in Denmark unearthed something extraordinary: a collection of enormous fossil vertebrae belonging to…
Imagine wading through a shallow tropical reef, small fish darting between coral heads. Crabs scuttle across the seafloor as water…
Imagine spending decades studying an animal that much of the world fears.Now imagine continuing that work after surviving a life-threatening…
Somewhere off the Northwest Atlantic, a blue shark (Prionace glauca) glides through shifting layers of water, diving hundreds of feet…
There are sharks — like the sleek reef sharks people plaster on beach warning signs or the torpedo-shaped great whites…
What is still out there in the deep ocean, beyond the reach of sunlight, beyond the places we routinely map,…