Sentences with phrase «on shark behavior»

The 25th annual Shark Week, which begins August 12 on Discovery, has researchers spying on shark behavior with an underwater surveillance cam and reconstructing the megalodon (a long - extinct shark species) down to the 250 six - inch - long teeth in its giant jaws.

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The team also found that the sharks could climb for minutes on end with almost no tail beating, a gliding behavior researchers believe is best explained by positive buoyancy.

The authors argue that resources could be better spent getting good information to the public and collecting more data on the numbers, patterns, and behaviors of both sharks and people.

I work on the central nervous system, but depending on your career goals there are a number of laboratories worldwide that specialize in various aspects of shark biology / behavior.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

In Pitch Black (2000), also known as The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black, antihero Richard B. Riddick — a convicted murderer whose eyes had been modified so he could see in the dark — fought off hordes of vicious flying shark - like shadow creatures on an alien planet while also battling the distrust and duplicitous behavior of his fellow crash - landing survivors.

From blacktip reef sharks to zebra sharks, learn how scientists classify these awe - inspiring species based on physical characteristics and behaviors.

Because sound or electrical stimuli, or yellow - and - black stripes on your wetsuit, or any of the other cockamamie ideas - none of them have been shown to work reliably in deterring shark behavior.»

According to National Geographic, Bradley M. Wetherbee, who studies shark behavior and ecology at the University of Rhode Island, is conducting a Delaware - based study on what happens to sand tiger sharks when they are caught and released.