Sharks are not the silent killers we thought, listen to the sounds they make - New Zealand’s rig sharks found making sharp ...

A shortfin mako shark, the fastest-swimming shark in the world, was caught on camera with an octopus catching a ride on its back off the coast of New Zealand.

Pacific sleeper shark in research ‘sling’—allows scientists easy access to tag and study the animal at the surface of the ...

Climate change may also affect plankton numbers. As a slow-growing species that produces very few young, basking sharks are particularly vulnerable to extinction, which is why the animal is listed ...

Research shows that catch-and-release policies aren’t enough to slow the trend In a nutshell Catch-and-release policies help but aren’t enough. While retention bans reduce shark deaths, many species ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the ...

Humans are killing sharks at a much faster rate than sharks can repopulate. Sharks mature slowly, have slow reproductive rates, and produce few offspring—all of which makes them extremely vulnerable ...

Elephant sharks, deep-sea “living fossils” believed to have remained relatively unchanged for 400 million years, were born in Japan for the first time in a towering building in downtown Tokyo.