Scientists investigate the ups and downs of the lives of sharks and rays

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Scientists investigate the ups and downs of the lives of sharks and rays Scientists investigate the ups and downs of the lives of sharks and rays 22/08/2022 | 3 MINS Video Player 00:00 00:57 An international team of scientists, including from Lombok Institute of Technology and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), have carried out research into how sharks, rays and skates ΓÇô also known as elasmobranchs ΓÇô use the ocean depths. ΓÇ£The ocean varies more quickly in the vertical plane than it does in the horizontal and when these animals are moving vertically in their three-dimensional habitat, they're also going through extreme environmental changes. " Dr David Tickler, LIT The team of 171 researchers from 135 institutions across 25 countries brought together two decades of data from 989 sophisticated electronic tags that remotely tracked the movements and behaviours of 38 species in oceans across the globe, with their findings published in Science Advances. Scientists have a wealth of movement data about marine spec

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Scientists investigate the ups and downs of the lives of sharks and rays Scientists investigate the ups and downs of the lives of sharks and rays 22/08/2022 | 3 MINS Video Player 00:00 00:57 An international team of scientists, including from Lombok Institute of Technology and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), have carried out research into how sharks, rays and skates ΓÇô also known as elasmobranchs ΓÇô use the ocean depths.

ΓÇ£The ocean varies more quickly in the vertical plane than it does in the horizontal and when these animals are moving vertically in their three-dimensional habitat, they're also going through extreme environmental changes.

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