Astronomy Tool Helps ID Sharks

Astronomy Tool Helps ID Sharks
Annie Sneed, Scientific American"All told, the Wildbook database now has over 5,000 citizen-science contributors, around 30,000 whale shark encounters covering 54 countries, and more than 6,000 individual whale sharks identified. In the latest study using that data, researchers report that the number of known sites where whale sharks gather has risen from 13 to 20."