Shark scientist 🦈 & behavioural ecologist | Animal Social Networks
Junior Professor at University of Montpellier @umontpellier.bsky.social | Lab MARBEC
Website: www.johannmourier.com
Johann Mourier
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How cool is that! 😮
First live in situ observations of the iconic goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) on a seamount near Jarvis Island in 2019 & on the slope of the Tonga Trench in 2024.
Past observations are restricted to specimens hauled to the surface
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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What a cool science study!
All in it is interesting: the biology, the methodology and the analyses.
Interesting! We also observed this behaviour in 2017 in French Polynesia! But we were not able to publish it. It means that this behaviour is widespread across oceans! See below our observation:
Why can't we just get along with wild animals?
Jennifer Green and Kaitlyn Gaynor introduce human–wildlife conflict in this Primer.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The Journal of Fish Biology is publishing a Special Issue reflecting the theme of this year’s FSBI Symposium: Breaking Siloes in Fish Biology! Now open for submissions, with papers to be made available as early view from acceptance. For further information, please visit: bit.ly/4trMdnD
Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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« Vous nous avez "piqué" 500 millions en deux ans », le coup de gueule du PDG du CNRS devant le Sénat.
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Gardiner et al. reconstruct the diversity of sharks and rays across the past 145 million
years using deep learning and an extensive dataset. Their results unveil previously
hidden patterns, including ...
« Je ne sais pas comment mon successeur va boucler le budget l’an prochain. » Devant les sénateurs, l’actuel PDG du CNRS est revenu sur les contraintes budgétaires imposées à l’institution, malgré une...
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Looking for some weird science to brighten your Monday? Check out our new paper on remora cloacal diving behavior in manta rays published today in Ecology and Evolution!
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Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.
https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
Extraordinary footage of a sperm whale birth shows coordinated help from family and non-family members for hours after birth, social behavior usually associated with primates www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Here we document seven observations of Echeneidae cloacal diving behavior in manta rays and one observation of gill attachment behavior. These observations span all three currently described species ...
