Latest research updates, insights, and stories from the RummerLab team
Episode 3 of Athletes of the Reef dives into 2025 research by Joel H. Gayford and Jodie L. Rummer in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, reframing tonic immobility in sharks as evolutionary baggage rather than adaptation.
Episode 2 of Athletes of the Reef highlights new research revealing that baby reef sharks are astonishingly resilient, healing from open umbilical wounds without slowing growth or losing condition. Studying neonatal sharks in Moorea and the Seychelles, scientists show how temperature, injury, and energy budgets shape survival in a warming ocean - with major implications for shark conservation and climate change.
Episode 1 of Athletes of the Reef explores new research revealing that epaulette sharks can lay eggs without any measurable rise in metabolic cost, challenging long-held assumptions about reproductive energetics in marine animals.