VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Sink the small-print insurance sharks

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Insurance sharks risk their reputations being damaged as much as their bank balances By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 19 May 2020 Insurers are in grave danger of being cast as the villains of this crisis. As we reveal today, small-business owners … Read more

TONY HETHERINGTON: Why Easytrade really does swim with the sharks

Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers’ corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below. Ms K.P. writes: I fell for a sales pitch from Easytrade.biz, and now I am unable to withdraw … Read more

Cold War bomb tests show shark’s age at time of death

Cold War atomic bomb testing from more than 50 years ago has helped scientists correctly determine the age of whale sharks for the first time. An international team of scientists measured levels of a carbon isotope in shark bone that permeated the oceans during atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s.   The presence of the … Read more

Sharks hunt in warmer rather than hot waters around the equator

Sharks like to hunt in waters around Europe, South Africa and the US because they dislike the warm waters around the equator Researchers studied 900 million incidents of sharks attacking fishing line bait They looked at records from 1960 to 2014 for sharks, tuna, sailfish and marlin The Bern team found that most predatory fish … Read more

Climate change is making sharks ‘right-handed’

Climate change is making sharks ‘right-handed’: Rising ocean temperatures affect the direction they prefer to swim, study finds Australian scientists incubated eggs at temperature predicted for 2100  They found half died within a month, and those who survived became ‘right handed’, preferring to swim to the right By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com Published: 23:44 GMT, … Read more