All shark fishermen in the USA are required to have both a State and Federal permit to handle and tag protected species…
Read More
On September 30, 2020, Queensland fisheries minister Mark Furner announced that sharks harvested in Australia's East Coast Inshore Fin Fish Fishery (ECIFFF) must be…
Read More
The Peruvian Police announced the seizure of eight tons of hammerhead and thresher shark from Ecuador in a customs warehouse in Zarumilla…
Read More
Have you ever found a mermaid’s purse among seaweed on the beach? These small leathery pouches are the cast-off egg capsules of some sharks and their kin…
Read More
Water has a large thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity, and the body temperature of organisms living in the water is greatly affected by the water temperature…
Read More
Sharks were thought to have evolved with a cartilage-based skeleton before other types of fish formed a bony skeleton…
Read More
Despite decades of research into the habits of white sharks, how and where they mate has largely remained a mystery…
Read More
Federal authorities busted an alleged multi-million-dollar international shark fin smuggling ring…
Read More
Back in July 2019, a blackmouth catshark, Galeus melastomus, caught in trawl at a depth of 1,640 feet (500 meters) deep off Cape Carbonara, Southern Sardina, was unusual…
Read More
To date only the length of the legendary giant shark Megalodon had been estimated but now, a new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University…
Read More
Humans' relationship with sharks is long and complex. In some cultures, sharks are revered as gods, but as humans took to the sea for trade and exploration…
Read More
When we think of mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and saltmarshes, we don’t immediately think of shark habitats…
Read More
Shark Research Institute field researchers have tagged and/or cataloged more than 1,000 whale sharks…
Read More
From time to time some of our favorite cartoonists allow us to share their work to lift your spirits…
Read More
Increasingly, people around the world are demanding an end to shark finning as a barbaric and cruel practice…
Read More
Chrystjan Bowers of the Ocean Conservacy used data from the Global Shark Accident File (GSAF) to create this easy-to-use interactive graphic…
Read More
Rumson police warn people swimming or boating in the Navesink River this weekend to keep an eye out for sharks. The warning comes after reports of several bull shark sightings near Navesink Avenue in town…
Read More
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. tagged 41 grey reef sharks at Palmyra Atoll and monitored their behavior from 2011 to 2014…
Read More
We leave our DNA everywhere and sharks do, too. This cellular material is known as environmental DNA or eDNA…
Read More
Four new species of tropical sharks that use their fins to “walk” were recently discovered off northern Australia and New Guinea…
Read More