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 ...

Researchers tested sharks off of the Brazil coast for cocaine and found high levels of the drug in all of the animals, according to a new study. The study included 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks.

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 ...

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… ...

Scientists have found cocaine in the muscle tissue of sharks off the coast of Brazil in a study that shows marine animals are ingesting illicit drugs that end up in the ocean.

Shark diving in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. A team of researchers with Brazil’s Oswaldo Cruz Institute has detected cocaine in 13 specimens of the Brazilian sharpnose shark found off the coast ...

National Geographic called the research “first-of-its kind.” They tested 13 sharpnose sharks caught near Rio de Janeiro and found the drug in the liver and muscle tissue of all 13 of them ...

Unprecedented levels of contamination. This marks the first documented instance of cocaine found in free-range sharks, with concentrations recorded at 100 times higher than any previously noted in ...

More information: Gapriel de Farias Araujo et al, "Cocaine Shark": First report on cocaine and benzoylecgonine detection in sharks, Science of The Total Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j ...

Sharks off the coast of Brazil have cocaine in them and scientists believe the drug may be altering their behaviour. In a study conducted on 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks from waters near Rio de ...

Cocaine has been found in sharks off the coast of Brazil and may be changing their behaviour, scientists fear. Marine biologists tested 13 sharks of the Brazilian sharpnose type taken from coastal ...

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 ...