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Shark scientists Jasmine Graham grew up in a family big, unfishing.

Most of our diet is seafood.

So it's obviously super important for sustenance and everything from my family.

And when she was little, Meele Time was a chance to feed her appetite and her curiosity.

I was that weird person that was asking questions like, what did the fish do when they're not

on our plate?

They are living out on the ocean.

They have a whole lives.

What's going on?

And you know, my family would be like, uh, you're asking a lot of questions, just eat the

fish.

It wasn't until after a high school trip that Jasmine learned there was an entire field of

study devoted to this stuff, marine science.

I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold the phone.

People get paid to play with fish and ask all of these questions that I've been trying

to ask for years.

They sure do.

Jasmine eventually got a bachelor's degree in marine biology where she studied the evolution

of hammerhead sharks.

Later for her masters, she focused on the critically endangered small tooth sawfish.

Imagine an elongated stingray with a chainsaw blade welded to its face.

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