Bart DiFiore

Biography

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.

See Work

Summer 2011

The Hottest Blood

By Bart DiFiore ,  Photography by Brian Skerry

Under the Miami skyline, beneath bits of trash collected at the margin of the Florida current, a tiny female creature struggles on a warm, moonless night in April. She is only six millimeters long, opaque, with a head larger than her body...