Drone technology is transforming shark research with its ability to give scientists a bird’s-eye view of the animals inhabiting the world’s coasts
, to develop algorithms that can identify numerous shark species under many different climatic and ocean conditions in real time.Sharks can rouse fear and awe like no other creature in the sea. Find out about the world's biggest and fastest sharks, how sharks reproduce, and how some species are at risk of extinction.
, which Australia’s local governments have used since the 1950s to physically keep sharks away from beaches. “It used to be that people just said, ‘Let’s get rid of those animals,’” Butcher notes. “Now they still want protection, but they want programs that don’t have adverse effects” for the sharks., which have been swimming Earth’s oceans for 400 million years.
“But what we’ve shown is that sharks move great distances”—sometimes more than 120 miles a day, he says. “So if you see a shark off your beach on any given day, you can guess that it’s going to be a long way away by the next day.”
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