Basking shark off Cornwall, UK
Basking shark off Cornwall, UK

Basking sharks trek across Atlantic

Giant basking sharks like to take tropical vacations too.

Previously thought to inhabit only temperate waters, a new study, just published in Current Biology, shows that the giant sharks make long, make vast migrations to deep, warm-water hideouts. Before the annual winter disappearance, scientists tagged 25 basking sharks off New England with floating, timed-release satellite transmitters, which showed that, like humans, the giant basking sharks like to take tropical vacations too.

Filephoto - T-33 fighter
Filephoto - T-33 fighter

Fighter jet lost 50 years ago found

The searchers were looking for another missing plane when they came upon the wreckage of a Lockheed T-33A jet trainer

The Air Force accident report identifies the pilots as Lt. Richard Martin Theiler and Lt. Paul Dale Smith. Theiler had 1,244 hours of flying experience, and Smith had 430.

Computer expert Gary Fabian is the founder of a group of unpaid volunteer enthusiasts who discovered a missing World War I German U-boat off the California coast in 2003.

As every Jaws fan knows, sharks can smell a drop of blood from up to a kilometer away, but how are their noses so sensitive?
As every Jaws fan knows, sharks can smell a drop of blood from up to a kilometer away, but how are their noses so sensitive?

How hammerhead sharks sniff out their prey

Dr Jonathan Cox from the University’s Department of Chemistry has been working with researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum in London, testing a scale model of a hammerhead shark in a flow tank to see how the water flows around the nasal cavity of its strange flattened head.