Just weeks before a pregnant porbeagle shark was expected to give birth, one of the two tracker tags marine scientists had placed on the animal floated to the surface near Bermuda.
Of 11 porbeagle sharks researchers tagged, eight were pregnant, including this one.
Before this, researchers didn’t think it was even possible that porbeagle sharks could be preyed upon, she added.
The team’s original goal was to trace pregnant porbeagle sharks throughout their pregnancy and figure out where the creatures typically go to give birth.
Porbeagle sharks are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature because they were overfished beginning in the 1960s.
Persons:
“, ”, Brooke Anderson, ” Anderson, Jon Dodd “, Anderson, Matt Davis, Davis
Organizations:
Arizona State University, Marine, NASCAR, Maine Department of Marine Resources, International Union for Conservation
Locations:
Bermuda, Cape Cod , Massachusetts, believability, ”