Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

Humans push a hulking fish with a chainsaw nose towards oblivion

The strange-looking sawfish, itself a predator, falls prey to overfishing and habitat destruction.
Knifetooth sawfish, seen mostly from below.

The knifetooth sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata) is one of five sawfish species, all of which are facing extinction. Credit: Norbert Wu/Minden/Nature Picture Library

The long-snouted, shark-like predators called sawfish have vanished from nearly 60% of their historical habitat and are nearing extinction, according to a mathematical method of counting marine species.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Get just this article for as long as you need it

$39.95

Learn more

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Nature 590, 367 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00381-9

References

Subjects

Nature Careers

Jobs

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Advanced search

Quick links