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Sharks have been patrolling the ocean for more than 420 million years. In the Bahamas, tiger sharks tend to travel in packs, like wolves, and as predators they help keep seagrass ecosystems in balance

Rays hover over seagrass beds in the Bahamas.

Plant life holds vast quantities of carbon and one of nature's greatest—and most under appreciated—systems for storing carbon is seagrass.

Austin Gallagher’s research on tiger sharks helped lead to the discovery of a sprawling underwater meadow of seagrass that increased the known extent of seagrass globally by at least 41 percent.

Seagrass beds shelter mollusks, fish, squid, and little crustaceans, and often serve as foraging grounds for sea turtles. Globally, there are 72 different species of seagrass.