Twenty-nine houndsharks and 16 gulper sharks are up for listing on CITES Appendix II at the wildlife trade regulator’s summit in Uzbekistan this week. Conservationists expect the vote to be close, ...
In a 1981 magazine essay, the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould let readers in one of his field’s counter-intuitive truths. Aquatic animals, including lungfish and coelacanths, are more closely ...