One of the things I love the most in Sydney is to see so many people with a mask and snorkel at the beach. To know that so many people enjoy being in the water, discovering the amazing critters Sydney has to show. And to see how so many divers and snorkelers care abou...

Check out the guest post our BEEF lab student Evan Byrnes wrote for Fish Thinkers.

Evan is studying personality and spatial learning in Port Jackson sharks and has recently published some of his work in Behavioural Brain Research.

Getting into the brain of sharks

You...

Exciting news! Our colaboration with Taronga Zoo has recently featured an article at The New York Times

Culum Brown, the Principal Investigator of the BEEF lab and assistant professor at Macquarie University, and Jo Day, a research and conservation coordinator at Taro...

The BEEF Lab and Team PJ wish you a Merry Christmas and a Fishy New Year 2016!

What a fantastic episode of Catalyst, all about sharks and showing some of the awesome research our lab has been doing!

Check it out here...

Due to global warming, our planet's water temperatures and acidity levels are rising. Researchers originally predicted that sharks would prefer hunting in these waters. They burn more calories and metabolize less efficiently meaning they are hungrier and are under more...

Sharks have ears, their skin feels like sandpaper, and they’re much more at risk of being killed by humans than we are by them.

These are just a few of the insights that local kids came away with after their day investigating sharks in Jervis Bay.

Project Shark is a p...

Port Jackson sharks are quite common in NSW waters. During the austral winter–spring season, the adults move onto shallow rocky reefs along the coast to mate. From late October to early July, they migrate to unkown locations. If you dive or snorkel, surely you’ve seen...

 Thursday, 8th of October 2015
 After getting our equipment ready, we launched the boat from Little Manly to spend the day looking for PJ sharks. The temperature was around 20 degrees and it was a little windy.

During the past few months, we have caught and tagged 26 sh...

If you usually dive or snorkel in NSW during winter-spring months, you have probably seen Port Jackson sharks before.

Keep your eyes peeled if you see them again and let us know where!

You can do that by filling in this form.

They are very easy to identify thanks to th...