A new paper has just been published in Science magazine, led by PEC/Heithaus lab post-doc Simon Dedman. Here we review the ecological...

Catch our Ph.D. candidate Erin Spencer discussing her work on great hammerheads with LX News!

It's not every day you see a shark that's known to prefer frigid polar regions off a coral reef. But that's exactly what happened when...

Our new study shows 70.9% of the fins in the Hong Kong shark fin trade are from species threatened with extinction. Led by distinguished...

Members of our team will represent FIU alongside the Dr. Michael Heithaus lab on this year's SharkFest. Check out the show line-up in...

Dr. Yannis Papastamatiou and a team of scientists including Ph.D. candidate Sarah Luongo set out to learn if great white sharks hang out...

Following a decline of Caribbean reef sharks in the no-take portion of the Glover's Reef Marine Reserve, a marine protected area...

In 2021, Dr. Demian Chapman and the Global FinPrint project were highlighted in the documentary "Endangered". To kick off 2022, Chapman...

New research by our principal investigator Dr. Yannis Papastamatiou and a team of international researchers highlights that grey reef...

Our postdoctoral scientist Dr. Diego Cardeñosa and team of airport scientists and authorities are using DNA toolkit to return illegally...

We are pleased to announce that one of our lead scientists, Dr. Demian Chapman, is now the Director of the Sharks and Rays Conservation...

Our new study in iScience shows that moray eels are more abundant on coral reefs closer to large human populations. Sharks on the other...

2020 was rough. But together we persevered. It’s easy to focus on the negatives of this year. However, we want to highlight some of the...

“We don’t think of sharks as social animals, but they do have social groups,” says Yannis Papastamatiou at Florida International...

Monitoring seasonal movements of sharks can be resource intensive. But what if we could do it using seawater? Our team including Drs....

We are delighted to announce that Global FinPrint's standard reef shark survey results were published today in Nature:...

Check out those scars! Where did this shark get them? A large squid species. Read the paper by our lead scientists & collaborators here...

Our Ph.D. candidate Laura Garcia Barcia discovered that mercury levels in shark fins being sold in Hong Kong and China are dangerously...

Our principal investigator Dr. Demian Chapman led a team of DNA detectives that examined scalloped hammerhead fins from the Hong Kong...

Congratulations to three FIU graduate students who won the Dr. Guy Harvey Scholarship, including our very own Sarah Luongo for her work...