Marine Biology Content / Marine Biology Content for ٺƵ en Sharks and Rays Leap Out of the Water for Many Reasons, Including Feeding, Courtship and Communication /news/sharks-and-rays-leap-out-water-many-reasons-including-feeding-courtship-and-communication <div><p>Many sharks and rays are known to breach, leaping fully or partly out of the water. In a <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-024-01584-5">recent study</a>, colleagues and I reviewed research on breaching and ranked the most commonly hypothesized functions for it.</p></div> September 23, 2024 - 12:15pm Andy Fell /news/sharks-and-rays-leap-out-water-many-reasons-including-feeding-courtship-and-communication Shark Park /climate/news/shark-park <p>North America’s biggest marine protected area — Mexico’s Revillagigedo National Park — may have been nearly seven times smaller if not for shark-tracking data collected by researchers and alumni from the University of California, Davis.</p> <p>The park, known as the “Galapagos of North America,” protects more than 57,000 square miles around the Revillagigedo Archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage site composed of a string of four volcanic islands about 300 miles southwest of the Baja Peninsula.</p> July 19, 2018 - 4:28pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/shark-park