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2 days ago · Researchers have confirmed the presence of cocaine in sharks off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, though questions remain about the effects of the drug. Listen to this article · 4:27 min Learn more.
3 days ago · July 23, 2024. It may sound like a B-rated movie plot, but ‘cocaine sharks’ are plying the coastal waters of Rio de Janeiro. New analysis of Brazilian sharpnose sharks has revealed that the ...
1 day ago · A Discovery Channel Shark Week special in 2023 explored the notion that sharks might take bites of floating cocaine bales, and it found that sharks did investigate dummy packages dropped near the ...
1 day ago · It might sound like science fiction, but researchers have discovered real “cocaine sharks” off the coast of Brazil. Thirteen wild Brazilian sharpnose sharks ( Rhizoprionodon lalandii) caught ...
6 days ago · Brazilian sharpnose sharks ( Rhizoprionodon lalandii) spend their entire lives in coastal waters. So Saggioro figured they would be among the species most likely to take up the drug, either directly from seawater or from the fish they eat—or possibly from drifting packages.
1 day ago · Sharks off the coast of Brazil tested positive for cocaine, a sign of how the illegal drug has become an emerging environmental contaminant, scientists say in a new study. Thirteen Brazilian ...
2 days ago · Tiger shark stuns Australian scientists when it vomits in front of them, revealing spiky creature 00:50. Sharks in the waters off Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, marine biologists said in ...
