Nearshore, shallow water nurseries provide food and abundant shelter where blacktip reef shark pups can avoid predators, such as other larger sharks…
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The Sarawak swellshark, Cephaloscyllium sarawakensis, has a new mode of oviparity named “sustained single oviparity”…
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The event, the first known of its kind, took place off the coast of South Africa. Drone footage shows the shark biting the juvenile whale's tail…
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A massive global study of the world’s reefs has found sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ on nearly one in five of the reefs surveyed…
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Mercury itself is a naturally occurring element that is present throughout the environment from industrial activity from coal-fired electricity generation, smelting and the incineration of waste…
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We share the work of two of our favorite cartoonists, Jim Toomey, creator of Sherman's Lagoon and Phil Watson, creator of Shaaark! to lift your spirits.
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National Geographic’s Sharkfest 2020 starts tonight at 8 pm EST on the National Geographic flagship channel and will feature 17 original specials for the first three weeks…
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The Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan (known as EAST) has just released a document asking for regulations to conserve the megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios).
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Botswana has no coastline, but is exporting shark fins worth P17 million (R24 million) to neighboring countries, including South Africa, according to the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the UN’s Comtrade database.
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This week The Guardian (UK) is rethinking humanity's relationship with sharks. The article by marine biologist and author Dr. Helen Scales is a celebration of these amazing animals, a look at why they matter and how they're in trouble.
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Scientists thought the Ganges River Shark, Glyphis gangeticus, was extinct…
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Because a whale shark has relatively small eyes it was assumed that it relied less on vision than its other senses…
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Thanks to the breakthroughs in ethology, sociobiology, neurobiology and ecology, we can now better understand what the world looks like to fish…
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White sharks are occasionally seen and/or captured in the Gulf of California at Cedros Island, San Benito Island, but Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico is…
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A swimmer was recorded over the weekend handling a shark at Cape Henlopen State Park Beach in Delaware…
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Basking sharks breach like white sharks but for different reasons. White sharks leap out of the water (or breach) to capture agile marine mammals such seals and otters. Basking sharks …
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Understanding the nutritional goals of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, is giving insights into what drives human-shark conflict and how the species can be best protected.
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Indonesia, which has the world’s highest diversity of sharks, allows the catch of some endangered species for domestic consumption, but loopholes effectively allow the illegal export of protected species.
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Canada has taken the lead as the first North Atlantic country ban the retention of highly migratory mako sharks in Atlantic fisheries by prohibiting retention of the species.
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Join a Shark Research Institute expedition in Hawaii to assist with research on tiger sharks - multiple dates during September 2020.
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