Blacktip reef shark (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Blacktip reef shark

Caption

Unlike other fishes, many sharks, like this blacktip reef shark, have both large young and live in warm waters. This explains why sharks have brains that overlap in size with those of the warm-blooded vertebrates – birds and mammals.

Credit

Angela Albi

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Only to be used with credit to Angela Albi and in relation to the study by Song et al (2025) PNAS.

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