Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s evolution from a primordial ...

Researchers discover an evening traffic pattern of sharks at Palmyra Atoll, where a deep channel from WWII connects sharks to ...

Overfishing threatens sharks and rays, crucial species for marine ecosystems, but recovery strategies offer hope.

Queensland Museum scientists have described a 400-million-year-old fossil, which is possibly the smallest vertebrate fossil ...

Over time, this makes these body parts harder and stronger. While humans have 206 to 213 bones in our body, most sharks have about 200 to 400 structures made of cartilage. The exact number varies ...

Feeding sharks is illegal in Cayman, but some divers continue to feed lionfish to sharks, causing them to associate humans ...

Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years ...

Sharks, rays, and chimaeras are facing a biodiversity crisis with an estimated 37% of species threatened with extinction driven by overfishing. Yet spatial planning tools often fail to consider the ...

Orcas have also been recorded hunting various kinds of sharks, including the great white shark, but not whale sharks—an animal that would pose a considerable challenge for any predator.

Overall competition winner 'The hunt from above' by Angel Albi. Blacktip reef sharks are a social species and as juveniles, they often gather in schools of fish near the shore in the Maldives, where ...