Illustration of sharks (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Illustration of sharks

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

Imran Razik

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Only to be use with credit and in relation to the study Song et al (2025) PNAS

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