Researchers investigate fishy sense of smell with hammerhead shark model
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
As every Jaws fan knows, sharks can smell a drop of blood from up to a kilometer away, but how are their noses so sensitive? Researchers in the UK are using the latest technology to find out how these fish are able to sniff out their prey. The scientists are testing a scale model of a hammerhead shark in a flow tank to see how the water flows around the nasal cavity of its strange flattened head.