Shark bites are widely reported and geographically dispersed, and reported incidence in Australia has increased in recent decades. Bull sharks, which …

Bycatch of marine mammals in commercial fisheries presents conservation, operational, and regulatory challenges, particularly in the Greater North Sea…

As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species

This project focuses on the conservation of two iconic penguin species, who live in two extremes: emperor penguins, the largest penguins who breed on the extreme cold, isolated ice in Antarctica; and ...

As an experienced Senior Marine Ecologist at Wageningen Marine Research (WMR) in Yerseke, you will lead a team of dedicated researchers who are working together on a range of ecologically relevant iss...

Genetic studies have differentiated three subspecies of humpback whales: Megaptera novaeangliae novaeangliae in the North Atlantic, M. n. australis in the So...

International trade of shark fins remains difficult to monitor because products are rarely labelled to species and are often highly processed, resulting in severely degraded DNA. For several shark sp...

Elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) are particularly vulnerable to fishing pressure owing to their life-history traits, making them a major conservation concern in coastal ecosystems. To assess the com...

Scientists have described a new species of deepwater catshark, Apristurus drona, based on specimens caught as bycatch off Kerala’s coast.

Predators are often assumed to concentrate where prey are most abundant, but the most abundant prey may not be the easiest to catch. We studied tiger sharks hunting young albatross seabirds during an...

The critically-endangered river shark had only been sighted a handful of times in the 21st century. Then one Indonesian fisherman accidentally caught 17 in a week.

Lancaster University is launching a new ‘Food for Nature and Society' doctoral training programme to tackle our contemporary food system crises, while also protecting our planet.

A crew from Whitby has landed two of the migratory species weighing over 300kg each in as many days.

It's not an eel and it's not an earthworm, but it is an earthworm eel.

A century's worth of sawfish rostra tucked away in museums and private collections has revealed something we couldn't see by counting animals alone: the world's largetooth sawfish have lost a remarkab...

Abstract. Obtaining host DNA from the blood meals of their invertebrate parasites (invertebrate-derived DNA, iDNA) has proven to be a powerful tool in terr