Data shows that while retention bans are a positive first step, they alone won’t be sufficient to stop the ongoing decline.

and are often seen in the northern Great Barrier Reef. According to the Shark Research Institute, there are more than 400 species of sharks. These animals, like all species, belong to a certain ...

By Marco Lopez Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this atoll home and is a matriarch of the thriving population of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) ...

The dataset included over 5,300 sightings of six shark species, including hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks and bull sharks, between 2013 and 2019 in the Protea Banks reef of South Africa.

One of only three filter-feeding shark species, basking sharks eat tiny organisms ... as large as a full-grown whitetip reef shark. During the 20th century, basking sharks were widely fished ...

Whitetip reef shark cruises past crown-of-thorns starfish ... Is that civilized? It's true, some shark species are adapted to feed on other sharks; a prime example is the bull shark.

Though more than 70 shark species are in worse shape than tiger ... sea grass, and coral reef that began attracting divers about a decade ago. It’s prime habitat for tiger sharks and has ideal ...

A new species of shark has been discovered a Mammoth Cave National Park, where fossil records have revealed more than 70 ...

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting fossil teeth deep inside a formation with the cave system.

New research shows that some great hammerhead sharks are homebodies. Scientists studying great hammerheads around Andros in ...