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Shark photographs taken around the world by underwater cameraman Michael Pitts.

  • Oceanic white-tip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), accompanied by Pilot Fish (Naucrates ductor) in the Red Sea
  • Black tip reef shark, line caught and discarded. Photograph taken in the Solomon Islands,Pacific Ocean.
  • Schooling Scalloped Hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) at Darwins Arch, Galapagos.
  • Reef shark (Carcharhinius perezii) on a wreck at night in the Bahamas, Caribbean.
  • Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) 'banking' in the Qatari sector of the Arabian Gulf.

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  • Shared Planet—Sharks

    Sharks are one of the great icons of the oceans and yet are in severe decline.

    BBC Radio 4

Galleries

  • Shared Planet recording at the Natural History Museum—Natural Symbols

  • Snow wolves on Ellesmere Island, Canada—Sharing Our Lives with Wolves

  • Hen harriers on Langholm Moor—Hen Harriers: Trust in Conservation

  • Examining plastic found in seabirds—Ocean Plastic and Seabirds

See all galleries from Shared Planet (17)

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