Blue Horizons Vol. 9

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For a creature that has prowled the deep ocean virtually unchanged for 125 million years – a living fossil, in the truest sense – the goblin shark has managed to remain almost entirely unseen... until now.

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A new aerial survey of dugongs in the Gulf of Carpentaria has recorded a sharp drop in numbers since the last count was taken 18 years ago — and Traditional Owners are calling for urgent action.​The 2025 survey, conducted by James Cook University and Charles Darwin University, recorded 305 dugongs across the Gulf, down from 471 in 2007.​The steepest decline was in the south-east Gulf, where numbers fell from 231 to…

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