Hammerhead sharks are among the most endangered species because their fins are highly prized for shark-fin soup, an Asian delicacy. They tend to move in packs and congregate in specific areas such ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition today urging the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect the great hammerhead shark under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s ...

But unfortunately, there is data suggesting that their population is on the decline, which is why they are listed as critically endangered. Great hammerhead sharks in the Indian Ocean ...

and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for ...

This lack of genetic diversity can be particularly problematic for endangered species. Take, for instance, Komodo dragons and hammerhead sharks. Both species are endangered and have been observed ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES ... as well as several species of hammerhead sharks and 37 species of guitarfish. At CoP18 in August 2019, 18 ...

A quarter of the small fins were actually from juveniles of large shark species, including critically endangered hammerheads as well as threatened silky sharks and blacktips. This finding ...

The UK is playing a continuing role in the "damaging trade in endangered shark species", they say. One of the two threatened sharks identified - the scalloped hammerhead - is subject to ...

The suit focuses on three species of hammerhead sharks. The scalloped hammerhead and the great hammerhead are already listed as “critically endangered” by the International Union for the Conservation ...

Scientists have sequenced to chromosome level the genomes of great hammerhead and shortfin mako sharks, showing that their populations have declined over 250,000 years.