sharks
3D Printed Shark Fin Replicas Enable Conservation and Education
The practice of shark finning has said to have increased due to demand for these appendages for soup and traditional medicines in the Asia-Pacific region. Estimates put the value of…
3D Printed Fossil Replicas Reveal Ancient Megalodon Was Even Bigger
A few years ago, researchers from the University of Florida conducted a case study about their National Science Foundation-funded program iDigFossils, featuring curriculum on subjects like evolution and climate change and using…
Shark Skin, 3D Printing, and Aerodynamics
Sharks have very unique skin – it gives the animals some help in rapidly propelling themselves through the water thanks to tiny, teeth-like scales called denticles. Four years ago, scientists…
3D Printed Robot Prototype Inspired by Hitchhiker Fish Can Cling to Underwater Surfaces
These days, you don’t often see a person standing alone on the side of the highway with their arm out and their thumb up, looking to hitch a ride –…
FATHOM 3D Prints a Device to Solve a Great White Shark Mystery
Happy Shark Week! Next year will be the 30th anniversary of the Discovery Channel’s shark-centered programming week, and its staying power is a testament to how much people love sharks….
Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Things – Shark Week
It has come at last, the holiest of holy holidays, the sacred Shark Week. Since 1988, shark lovers all over the world have devoted their lives to witnessing a solid…
Rare ‘Pocket Shark’ Able to be Studied With 3D Printed Model
While the most famous 3D printed shark is one based on Katy Perry’s Super Bowl dance partner, fraught with legal issues as it may have been, a new shark has…
Scientists 3D Print Shark Skin: May lead to technologically advanced boat propellers & more
When it comes to innovation, some of the most technologically advanced objects still belong to nature. Over the centuries, many inventions have come about, by observing nature in its finest…
