Sharks have a reputation for being silent killers — the top ocean predators are stealthy hunters, but they also ... have recorded evidence of the rig shark — Mustelus lenticulatus — actively ...

But scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand recently recorded a rig shark, or Mustelus lenticulatus, making a sharp clicking sound, most likely by snapping its teeth together ...

In a study published March 26 in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers found that the rig shark, native to New Zealand, occasionally makes a clicking sound. "The discovery was purely ...

Her project was focused on the hearing capabilities of several sharks, including the rig shark, a small species ... when they have been approached by divers. Sharks and stingrays diverged more ...

The scientist, who hails from New Zealand, inadvertently discovered this great-white noise in 2021 while researching the hearing capabilities of the rig shark — a small inshore species that ...

Spielberg built a franchise — and a collective ocean phobia — on the silence. And now? This scrappy little rig shark has clicked its way into scientific literature and rewired our assumptions.