Episode 45: Testing the Age of Sharks

This episode explores new research, which has used the fallout from the Cold War nuclear bomb tests to reveal the true age of whale sharks.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.  

Read ‘Plague of Dead Sharks’ by Alan Dugan here.   

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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