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Jaida N. Elcock, who is working toward her PhD in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Woods Hole, is young, Black, female and passionate about sharks. In May last year, Ms. Elcock and three other Black female shark researchers who had never met watched an online video seen all over the country of a white woman threatening to call the police on Black bird watcher Christian Cooper in New York’s Central Park. As a result of that incident, these four shark researchers found each other through #Black...

Can These Hedge Trimmers With Fins Avoid a Brush With Extinction? Scientists have found that sawfish are thriving in some habitats while vanishing from others. A largetooth sawfish released into waters in northern Australia after being rescued from a drying floodplain waterhole.Credit...Peter Kyne By Lesley Evans Ogden Feb. 10, 2021 Sawfish look something like hedge trimmers with fins and can reach lengths of 17 feet. To Jasmin Graham, president and chief executive of Minorities in Shark Scienc...