The Hottest Blood

By Bart DiFiore,  Photography by Brian Skerry

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Issue: Summer 2011 / Volume 87/3
Published: June 20, 2011
Bart DiFiore

Bart DiFiore grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts and has studied common thresher sharks at the Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research (PIER) in Oceanside, California. His work on “The Hottest Blood” was supported by a Middlebury College Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.

Brian Skerry

Brian Skerry has been a contributing photographer for National Geographic since 1998. Skerry’s photographers have also been featured in magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Esquire, Audubon, and Men’s Journal. Two of his images were named to the International League of Conservation Photographers’ list of the Top 40...

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