Tags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 22:07
in Biology & Nature
The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pattern of migration that over tens of thousands of years the white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean have separated themselves into a population genetically distinct from sharks elsewhere in the world.
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