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 team found cocaine and benzoylecgonine—a metabolite produced when cocaine is broken down in the body—in muscle and liver tissues of all 13 fish. (See the surprising ways sharks keep our ...

Though past research has detected cocaine in an array of smaller ocean species, like mollusks and crustaceans, the amount seen in the sharks was 100 times higher than that found in previous ...

Sharks living off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, according to new research, the first time that the drug has been detected in free-ranging sharks. CNN values your feedback 1.

The levels of cocaine found in these sharks were reported to be as much as 100 times higher than in previously observed marine life. “We were actually dumbfounded,” said Rachel Ann Hauser ...

Sharks in the waters off Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, marine biologists said in a new study, marking the first time the drug has been found in the free-ranging predators.

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 ...

High concentrations of cocaine were found in the sharks’ muscles and livers by researchers at the Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Benzoylecgonine was also detected in the same sharks.

Sharks test positive for cocaine near Rio de Janeiro, ... For example, a 2018 study in the United Kingdom found that eels exposed to cocaine were having trouble mating.

Large amounts of cocaine, often brought to the U.S. on boats, wash up on U.S. coasts annually. Researchers went to the Florida Keys to see how sharks might react.

Thousands of sharks off Florida's coast may have ingested bales of cocaine left in the water by drug smugglers attempting to get their product into the U.S. Marine biologist Tom Hird wanted to ...

Sharks, too, are aplenty in Florida. In fact, the Sunshine State is the shark bite capital of the world.. Here's what we know about the show "Cocaine Sharks" and the unrelated "Cocaine Shark" movie.