Tubarão

Interesting facts

Five animals so rare they seem to have disappeared after discovery include a whale never seen alive, a shark found only once, a venomous snake discovered by chance, and a lizard forgotten for decades in a museum.

Carla Teles 21/05/2026 at 15:15

Interesting facts

Born around the same time that Galileo observed Jupiter and Brazil was still a Portuguese colony, the Greenland shark lives 400 years without developing cancer, and its genome, twice the size of a human’s, could revolutionize medicine.

Douglas Avila 22/04/2026 at 23:31

Interesting facts

House in England with a 7.6-meter shark embedded in the roof attracts attention worldwide and becomes a curious attraction in Oxford.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 30/03/2026 at 11:04

Tubarão-dorminhoco raro flagrado por câmera na Antártida.

Science and Technology

Giant Shark Up to 4 Meters Appears 490 Meters Deep in Antarctica, Breaking Historical Rule That Said They Did Not Live There

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 19/02/2026 at 11:17

Pesquisa publicada na Science indica que tubarões-martelo-recortados podem prender a respiração durante mergulhos profundos, mantendo o corpo aquecido enquanto caçam.

Interesting facts

Measuring 3.6 Meters And Diving Nearly 800M Deep, In Freezing Waters With Low Oxygen, The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Defies Biology By Holding Its Breath To Hunt, Revealing An Unprecedented Strategy Among Large Marine Predators

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 02/02/2026 at 15:32

Science and Technology

While You Sleep, These Animals Never Turn Off Their Bodies — Science Explains How

Roberta Souza 28/01/2026 at 09:50

Com pouca comida e zero luz, o fundo do mar cria “gigantes” que parecem impossíveis isópodos de 40 cm, lulas colossais e tubarões de 7 m crescem por eficiência, frio (4)

Science and Technology

With Little Food and Zero Light, The Depths of The Sea Create “Giants” That Seem Impossible: 40 cm Isopods, Colossal Squid, and 7 m Sharks Grow Through Efficiency, Cold, and Isolation, but May Disappear With Ocean Warming

Carla Teles 25/01/2026 at 21:10

Descoberta em praia inglesa leva à identificação de ictiossauro gigante de até 26 metros que viveu no final do Triássico.

Science and Technology

An 11-Year-Old Girl Saw Huge Bones on a Beach and Unwittingly Started the Search for a Whale-Sized “Sea Monster”

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 30/12/2025 at 13:32

Fósseis de tubarões de 325 milhões de anos e 4 metros são identificados no Kentucky, preservados intactos em caverna.

Science and Technology

They Entered The Longest Cave In The World Expecting To Find Rocks And Darkness, And Ended Up Discovering Two Creatures From 325 Million Years Ago

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 30/12/2025 at 13:04

Um mega-tubarão ancestral dominou os mares australianos 15 milhões de anos antes do megalodonte.

Science and Technology

Before The Megalodon, There Was Another Giant: The Discovery Of An 8-Meter Ancient Megashark That Dominated The Prehistoric Food Chain

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 28/12/2025 at 10:27

Sistema de energia solar instalado no telhado do Abrigo dos Velhinhos de Tubarão, com painéis fotovoltaicos gerando energia limpa para a instituição

Solar Energy

Tubarão Elders’ Home Receives Solar Energy System, Advances in Sustainability, Reduces Electricity Costs, and Cares for Community Seniors

Hilton Libório 15/12/2025 at 09:22

O primeiro tubarão-laranja do mundo é descoberto a 1.000 metros de profundidade: espécie rara surpreende cientistas ao apresentar coloração metálica

Science and Technology

The First Orange Shark in the World Is Discovered at 1,000 Meters Deep: Rare Species Surprises Scientists with Its Metallic Coloring

Valdemar Medeiros 27/10/2025 at 08:51

Five animals so rare they seem to have disappeared after discovery include a whale never seen alive, a shark found only once, a venomous snake discovered by chance, and a lizard forgotten for decades in a museum.

Born around the same time that Galileo observed Jupiter and Brazil was still a Portuguese colony, the Greenland shark lives 400 years without developing cancer, and its genome, twice the size of a human’s, could revolutionize medicine.

House in England with a 7.6-meter shark embedded in the roof attracts attention worldwide and becomes a curious attraction in Oxford.

Giant Shark Up to 4 Meters Appears 490 Meters Deep in Antarctica, Breaking Historical Rule That Said They Did Not Live There

Measuring 3.6 Meters And Diving Nearly 800M Deep, In Freezing Waters With Low Oxygen, The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Defies Biology By Holding Its Breath To Hunt, Revealing An Unprecedented Strategy Among Large Marine Predators

While You Sleep, These Animals Never Turn Off Their Bodies — Science Explains How

With Little Food and Zero Light, The Depths of The Sea Create “Giants” That Seem Impossible: 40 cm Isopods, Colossal Squid, and 7 m Sharks Grow Through Efficiency, Cold, and Isolation, but May Disappear With Ocean Warming

An 11-Year-Old Girl Saw Huge Bones on a Beach and Unwittingly Started the Search for a Whale-Sized “Sea Monster”

They Entered The Longest Cave In The World Expecting To Find Rocks And Darkness, And Ended Up Discovering Two Creatures From 325 Million Years Ago

Before The Megalodon, There Was Another Giant: The Discovery Of An 8-Meter Ancient Megashark That Dominated The Prehistoric Food Chain

Tubarão Elders’ Home Receives Solar Energy System, Advances in Sustainability, Reduces Electricity Costs, and Cares for Community Seniors

The First Orange Shark in the World Is Discovered at 1,000 Meters Deep: Rare Species Surprises Scientists with Its Metallic Coloring

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

Hidden beneath a small entrance in Namibia’s underground, the largest underground lake in the world is the size of 2 football fields, 264 meters deep, and even has rare animals that survive without sunlight.