Shark Week Tech, Crime & Birth Year, Sharks’ Near-Extinction
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Learn about cutting-edge Shark Week tech; how birthdays impact criminal records; and the time sharks nearly went extinct.
More from Joe and Lauren Romeiro and Shark Week 2021:
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- Shark Week 2021 Visual Guide https://www.discovery.com/shark-week/your-guide-to-shark-week-2021-pictures
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- Learn about new Eli Roth film “Fin” https://www.discovery.com/dnews/New_Eli_Roth_Film_FIN_to_Premiere_During_Shark_Week_on_discovery
- Learn more about “Return to Shark Vortex” https://ew.com/tv/shark-week-2021-guide-all-32-specials/?slide=3a0bc578-6635-494f-93f0-6e214e673413#3a0bc578-6635-494f-93f0-6e214e673413
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The likelihood of having a criminal record depends on when a person was born by Kelsey Donk
- Best predictor of arrest rates? The “birth lottery of history.” (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/hu-bpo052121.php
- Neil, R., & Sampson, R. J. (2021). The Birth Lottery of History: Arrest over the Life Course of Multiple Cohorts Coming of Age, 1995–2018. American Journal of Sociology, 126(5), 1127–1178. https://doi.org/10.1086/714062
19 million years ago, sharks almost disappeared by Cameron Duke
- Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline. (2018). Nhm.ac.uk. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/shark-evolution-a-450-million-year-timeline.html
- Evidence for a previously unknown extinction event that decimated ocean shark species. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/aaft-efa060121.php
- Ryan, J. (2021, June 7). Sharks almost disappeared 19 million years ago and scientists don’t know why. CNET; CNET. https://www.cnet.com/news/sharks-almost-disappeared-19-million-years-ago-and-scientists-dont-know-why/
- Sibert, E. C., & Rubin, L. D. (2021). An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks. Science, 372(6546), 1105–1107. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz3549
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Cody Goff. |
| 0:07.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.6 | Today you learn about cutting-edge technology that's helping us study sharks and other fish with returning Shark Week guests Joe and Lauren Romero. |
| 0:16.0 | You'll also learn how the likelihood of having a criminal record depends on when a person was born, |
| 0:21.0 | and the mystery of why sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago. |
| 0:26.7 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:28.7 | Yesterday we talked to Joe and Laura and Romero about the challenges they face filming Sharks for Shark Week, which is this week by the way. |
| 0:38.0 | And today they're going to tell us about some of the cutting edge tech that helps them get those shots. Joe Romero is an |
| 0:44.7 | award-winning cinematographer who's spent more than a decade filming and |
| 0:48.5 | interacting with sharks all over the world. Lauren Romero is a marine scientist and a well-respected photographer and cinematographer. |
| 0:57.8 | And we asked them, can you tell us anything about the cool technology you use to find and film these sharks? |
| 1:04.0 | We can give you a couple of things. |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, we can tell you like, we have ways of like sampling the water now where we can actually |
| 1:10.0 | see if an animal's in the water without having to like witness the animal like you can |
| 1:14.7 | literally take water out and pull DNA strands out of water and be able to tell when an animal's |
| 1:19.0 | been around that area within the last few days. |
| 1:21.6 | What? |
| 1:23.0 | But DNA strands are just floating around in the water? |
| 1:25.0 | And... |
| 1:26.0 | Well, everywhere you go, you're like shedding DNA and these animals are shedding DNA off into the water. |
| 1:30.0 | But now it's kind of the point where we're actually been able to map them out enough to be able to identify them. |
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