Amy Teffer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amy Teffer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Amy Teffer, part of an international team of researchers studying declining shark populations, takes a muscle sample from a mako shark. Teffer was part of the global shark research while a graduate student at UMass Amherst. The team reports that shelf-dwelling sharks forage in a range of different coastal food webs, while deeper ocean sharks seem to get most of their food from specific areas of colder water.

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