Gardiner admits that better olfaction can't explain all of a shark's characteristics. The winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii), which has one of the widest nostril separations, isn't the most ...

Gardiner admits that better olfaction can't explain all of a shark's characteristics. The winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii), which has one of the widest nostril separations, isn't the most ...

and a hammerhead shark species, the winghead shark, are endangered, a top conservationist body have said. Human pressure driving three species closer to extinction Bornean orangutan "critically ...

Threats to the whale shark include habitat destruction, accidental entanglement in fishing nets, vessel collisions, and hunting for their meat, fins and oil. Numbers of the winghead shark have ...

Another species added to the red list is the winghead shark, a member of the hammerhead shark family.

Raredon, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History Winghead shark (Sphyrna blochii) Sandra J. Raredon, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History The National ...

11. The winghead shark has some wild proportions. Relative to its body size, the winghead shark has the widest head of any hammerhead—almost half as wide as its body is long. Wingheads live in ...

One of the species, the winghead shark, now lives in the warm waters north of Australia and the other, the bonnethead shark, inhabits the Caribbean and tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. One reason ...

The winghead shark has a 48 degree arc in front of it that’s covered by both eyes, which must give it exceptional depth perception. By comparison, the scalloped hammerhead has a binocular ...

She found that hammerhead eyes, though far apart, have the greatest overlap in their fields of view. The winghead shark has a 48 degree arc in front of it that's covered by both eyes, which must give ...