Cocaine was detected in sharks in Brazil, and no, this is not the plot of a movie.. Researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Brazil found cocaine in 13 Brazilian Sharpnose sharks caught off ...

Cocaine was detected in sharks in Brazil, and no, this is not the plot of a movie. Researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Brazil found cocaine in 13 Brazilian Sharpnose sharks caught off the ...

The levels of cocaine found in these sharks were reported to be as much as 100 times higher than in previously observed marine life. “We were actually dumbfounded,” said Rachel Ann Hauser ...

Though past research has detected cocaine in an array of smaller ocean species, like mollusks and crustaceans, the amount seen in the sharks was 100 times higher than that found in previous ...

Meet the "cocaine sharks," also known as Brazilian sharpnose sharks, Rhizoprionodon lalandii, zipping around cocaine saturated coastal waters.

Sharks swimming off the cost of Brazil have something a little startling coursing through their systems: cocaine. The drug had never previously been found in wild sharks.But that doesn’t mean ...

Marine biologists tested a group of Brazilian sharpnose sharks swimming off the coast of Brazil. They found high levels of cocaine — and its primary metabolite, benzoylecgonine — in the ...

Tiger shark stuns Australian scientists when it vomits in front of them, revealing spiky creature 00:50. Sharks in the waters off Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, marine biologists said in ...

Researchers at the Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) found traces of cocaine in 13 sharks of the species Rhizoprionodon lalandii, popularly known as tubarão-bico-fino ...

SHARKS in Brazil have tested positive for cocaine and scientists say they have multiple theories as to how the class A drug reached the South Atlantic Ocean. Scientists tested 13 Brazilian sharpnos… ...

Research conducted by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation has uncovered alarming levels of cocaine in 13 sharpnose sharks captured near Rio de Janeiro. Upon examination, scientists found significant ...