Sunday, March 4, 2012

SHARKS FINE DETECTORS.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: The Dallas Morning News

The hammerhead shark's notorious silhouette confers an advantage in the search for food,new research has found.

The creature's anvil-shaped head is a finely tuned sensor used to detect the mild electric fields generated by other animals, researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa reported in San Diego last week at a meeting of the American Physiological Society.

Most sharks have special pores that …

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