Tag: shark

An international research team led by Faviel A. López-Romero of the University of Vienna investigated how the jaw shape of ...

A research group including Professors Mitsumasa Koyanagi and Akihisa Terakita of the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Science has ...

While giving birth to live young is a trait that most people associate with mammals, this reproductive mode—also known as ...

Most people find sharks threatening. Who doesn’t have an image in their mind of a menacing shark fin racing through ...

Cartilaginous fish have changed much more in the course of their evolutionary history than previously believed. Evidence for this thesis ...

ROCKVILLE, MD – In 1920, inventor Nikola Tesla patented a type of pipe that he called a “valvular conduit,” which ...

A new study carried out by Portuguese and Cape Verdean researchers reveals a shark nursery in the Sal Rey bay ...

The number of unprovoked shark attacks worldwide decreased last year, tying with 2020 for the fewest number of reported incidents ...

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine, in collaboration with Albany Medical College (AMC) in New York, are ...

Sharks have reputations as “super smellers” that use olfaction to detect odors related to finding prey and mates, communicating with ...

Ten student-led startup firms were awarded a total of $185,000 at the Maverick Entrepreneur Program and Award Fund's MavPitch Phase ...

Living sharks are often portrayed as the apex predators of the marine realm. Paleontologists have been able to identify fossils ...

Conflict between shark populations and fishing communities is reported to be rising within one of the world’s first shark sanctuaries. ...

Videos of shark attacks are popular – some of Discovery’s “Shark Week” videos of sharks attacking cages or people have ...

SARASOTA, FLA (July 19, 2022) — More than 70 percent of species that end up in the global shark fin trade ...

Marine biologists from the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and the University of Southampton have led ground-breaking research which indicates that ...

The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) has joined the Shark Conservation Fund (SCF) as one of its members. Dr James ...

Sharks and rays are one of the most ancient vertebrate groups, as well as one of the most endangered.  Researchers ...

Pet owners may unknowingly be feeding their pets with meat from endangered shark species, shows a new study published in ...

About the size of a small school bus, the basking shark is the second largest fish in the ocean and ...