How Does Eugenie Clark Impact Marine Life?

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There are around 400 diverse shark species and over 15,000 divergent tropical marine fish discovered by man(www.flmnh.ufl.edu). Although, this used to be a man's field, one woman proved to the world that this was her forte. Dr. Eugenie Clark, an American Ichthyologist, explored thousands of feet below the sea to discover and observe numerous shark species, and countless tropical fish. Through her explorations, encounters, and exchanges, Eugenie Clark was able to impact the human knowledge of marine life. Before the 1940s, the human knowledge on marine species was almost nonexistent. Humans had only explored and discovered below_% of the ocean and

Many years later, Eugenie Clark entered the “man's” world of marine biology

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