Brit Finucci

Great to team up with @cgmull.bsky.social @nickdulvy.bsky.social @britfinucci.bsky.social, Victoria and Jeff, to bring sharks, rays, and chimaeras to the larger discourse on deep-sea mining. This paper is also my first first-author publication and I am excited it could be this one!

It was a great day 😁

You can already pre-order on Amazon. I know you want to...

I've waited a decade to finally have the chance to work with this ghost #shark 👻🦈 legend. While we were geeking away on this giant beast, we also got word that the first and only Ghost Sharks of the World book finally has a released date. Coming to you January 2026!

Remember that first global record of megamouth shark pups? It's finally published in a scientific journal! Read all about it here: doi.org/10.31398/tpjf

This study was partly supported by @mwwphilippines.bsky.social #AtingPating grants. Congratulations to the authors!

New #sharkscience from Cornelia Erk & stellar cast of ghost shark researchers.
Genetic diversity of American elephantfish showing "recent" arrival in South America. And as a bonus, relationship between the 3 Callorhinchus spp
doi.org/10.1111/jfb....
@britfinucci.bsky.social @iucnshark.bsky.social

Nice one 😊

In a summer of sharks, a sighting to top them all From the University of Auckland – Comment: Sharks have been on our minds lately thanks to several publicised incidents. But what else is there to know about these amazing creatures?

Sharktopus 🦈🐙 sighting. One of the more unusual things I’ve seen #shark #octopus #NewZealand #UniversityofAuckland newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/09/i...

Go @britfinucci.bsky.social

Go TeamGulper

Perhaps they were subtly sharing their true feelings for the person they named it after 🙃

😂 there's been a lot of that lately too

My new favourite game: Turtle or Not Turtle.

This game gets surprisingly difficult real fast when they're not at the surface.

New summary of 2 massive recent publications documenting the status and trends of sharks, rays, and chimaeras 🧪🦈🌎 @mongabay.bsky.social
news.mongabay.com/2025/01/new-...

Deepwater Sharks Are Threatened by Demand for Liver Oil One in seven species of deepwater sharks and rays is threatened with extinction because of the liver oil and meat trade and emerging fishing technologies that make it possible to catch deep-sea fishes

I wrote about emerging threats to sharks for Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep... -Quotes @britfinucci.bsky.social

Global assessment of manta and devil ray gill plate and meat trade: conservation implications and opportunities - Environmental Biology of Fishes Due to overexploitation in fisheries partly driven by international trade demand, mobulid rays are among the most threatened of elasmobranch families. We conducted a global assessment of the state of ...

Interesting new paper from the Manta Trust on the trade in mobulid products (especially gill plates). Despite CITES and CMS listings, fishing continues to threaten this iconic groups of rays.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#sharkconservation #sharkresearch #mobulids #CITES

Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) IUCN Critically Endangered © Masayuki Agawa_Ocean Image Bank

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk
👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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Cover of the new "global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras" report

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives.

portals.iucn.org/library/node...

The IUCN SSC SSG was established to respond to growing awareness and concern of the severe impact of fisheries on shark, ray, and chimaera populations globally. The SSG is recognized as the leading authority on the status of these species, using science to support actions for conservation.

Save me some!

New species of ghost shark discovered by New Zealand scientists | CNN Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.

Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.

Fished for their meat and liver oil, many remarkable deep-water sharks and rays now face extinction Long lifespans and slow reproduction rates make deep-water sharks and rays as vulnerable to overexploitation as whales once were. We must place them under protection to avoid extinctions.

One in seven species (14%) of deepwater sharks and rays is threatened with extinction - and overfishing is the main reason theconversation.com/fished-for-t...

That's just an ity bity one. Full grown is more like hand to elbow length (~75 cm)

I gotta say that while everyone knows sandbar shark is #BestShark, I deeply and sincerely appreciate @britfinucci.bsky.social taking time out of what's gotta be one of the busiest days of her career to troll me personally.

I like roughsharks a lot, worry not.

Scientific American article by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
quotes @sharkadvocates.bsky.social “It’s been at least 15 years since scientists sounded alarm bells over the serious depletion of deepwater dogfish and gulper sharks off Europe”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep...

"Deepwater Sharks Are Threatened by Demand for Liver Oil" by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social "Scientists & conservationists hope that this important and troubling new report will help to raise the alarm to protect the “deep-sea pandas” and other species."
🦑🌍🐟
www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep...

#Bestshark made the cover of Science

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...