A hammerhead shark less than one meter long swims frantically in a plastic container aboard a boat in the Sanquianga National Natural Park, off Colombia’s Pacific coast. It is a delicate female ...
The global shark population continues to decline alarmingly despite measures to curb the uncontrolled fishing that seeks to satisfy the demand for fins, according to a scientific report that urges ...
The waters surrounding Almería are becoming increasingly important in the fight to protect endangered shark species in the ...
Tope shark by George Brown Good from Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States: Section I, Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, Plates. (Freshwater and Marine Image Bank via ...
Sharks may elicit less sympathy than elephants or rhinos, but experts say the feared predators are under increasing pressure from unmanaged commercial fishing and desperately in need of further ...
WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service today proposed to list two tope shark populations — in Southern Africa and the Southwest Atlantic — as threatened under the Endangered Species Act ...
As sharks go, LeeBeth is something like a long-haul trucker with gills and giant teeth. Swimmers at the beach might not be excited to see the 14-foot white shark, but scientists following LeeBeth’s ...
WASHINGTON— Responding to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that protecting the smalltail shark under the Endangered Species ...
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is embarking on a swim in a great white shark “hotspot” for the 50th anniversary of Jaws, as he calls for action to protect sharks. The Plymouth-based swimmer is starting ...
July 14 is Shark Awareness Day, an annual reminder to raise awareness of these incredible creatures that roam the oceans. Sharks and rays belong to a group of fish known as elasmobranchs, which ...
When my late husband, Peter Benchley, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary, I had one wish: to go cage diving with great white sharks. After decades of ocean expeditions together, I’d often been the ...
The brother of a West Australian surfer who died three days after being attacked by a shark last year says a recently enacted government rebate on a personal protection device will go “some way” to ...