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 the ...

Illegal drug-production labs may be releasing substances into the water that could harm Brazilian sharpnose sharks and other marine animals. Biologist Paulo dos Santos measures a Brazilian ...

Sharks swimming off the cost of Brazil have something a little startling coursing through their systems: cocaine. The drug had never previously been found in wild sharks. But that doesn’t mean ...

Scientists have found traces of cocaine in wild sharks off the coast of Brazil, in a discovery that highlights the risks to marine life of the illegal cocaine trade. The Brazilian sharpnose sharks ...

Studies have also found the drug in other marine creatures, including shrimp, mussels and eels. But researchers were curious to know whether cocaine might be affecting sharpnose sharks that spend ...

and they all had high levels of the drug in their muscles and livers – sometimes as much as 100 times found previously in other sharks. They are exposed to cocaine through pollution, although ...

Rampaging sharks high on cocaine might be a great ... This map compares the amount of cocaine found in wastewater in milligrams per 1,000 people per day. To learn more about your own city, simply ...

It was the first study to detect cocaine in the species. It’s not yet known how the drug affect the predators. It’s not just sharks ingesting man-made substances. Marine experts have found ...