A new study analyzing the genomes of nearly 40 sharks found that skates and rays likely evolved from the shark body plan, and that some sharks are actually evolutionarily distinct.

Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other ...

However, these 12-foot-long, solitary sharks appear to form important social bonds. A study published today in the journal Animal Behaviour finds that they create these relationships with only a few ...

Bull sharks may have a reputation as lone hunters, but new research reveals they actually form social bonds and even have preferred “friends.” After six years of observing 184 sharks in Fiji, ...

A rare encounter with a juvenile great white shark caught by fishermen in April 2023 has reignited scientific interest in the mysterious population of these apex predators in the Mediterranean Sea. By ...

After a series of shark encounters off the Carolinas in 2015, two scientists went on a mission. Dr. Greg Skomal and National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Merchant demonstrated firsthand how they ...

Australia Antarctic Shark In this image made from video and released by the University of Western Australia, a sleeper shark swims into the spotlight of a video camera in Antarctica in January 2025.

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His recent movements have brought him much closer to the coastline than his previous positions further north.

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Goodall, a female great white measuring just over 13 feet and nearly 1,400 pounds, was spotted pinging about 9 miles off the Gulf Coast near Port Richey, Florida, on March 17.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks ...