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During an OceanX expedition, scientists are getting an unprecedented look into the lives of mysterious sixgill sharks, top predators that can reach lengths of 20 feet.

By Charles Wineland and Emma Ea Ambrose April 7, 2021 Then: Purdue University research, often published in scientific journals, became analytical ore that grateful industries mined and refined, profitably. “We stood back as professors and watched. ‘Ooh, that’s great – they used our stuff!’” says Christian Butzke, a professor and associate head of the Department of Food Science. “A few decades later you think, ‘They took what we developed – and there’s nothing coming back to us other than a pat on the back and a handshake?’” Now: Commercialization is a priority ...

Their names are as marvellous as their lives are mysterious; shysharks, pyjama sharks and ghost sharks, flapnose houndsharks, frilled sharks, megamouth sharks, speckled guitarfish and ornate sleeper rays.

This deep-sea shark is one of the world’s largest glowing animals Annie Roth © Photograph by Jérôme Mallefet Bioluminescence of the Largest Luminous Vertebrate, the Kitefin Shark, Dalatias licha: First Insights and Comparative Aspects that appeared in Frontiers in Marine science. Shark researchers working off the eastern coast of New Zealand have made an illuminating discovery. In a new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the scientists found that three species of deep-sea shark are bioluminescent, producing a soft blue-green light with speciali...

This deep-sea shark is one of the world’s largest glowing animals A new study has found that three species of deep-sea shark, including the six-foot-long kitefin shark, are bioluminescent. ByAnnie Roth Email Shark researchers working off the eastern coast of New Zealand have made an illuminating discovery. In a new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the scientists found that three species of deep-sea shark are bioluminescent, producing a soft blue-green light with specialized cells in their skin. One of the species, the kitefin shark, grows to a length of nearly si...