Tag: shark

When life gives you lemon sharks, make... science?

The first hammerhead shark was likely the result of a genetic deformity. A biologist explains how shark DNA reveals hammerheads’ ...

From below the water's surface, swimming humans may look like food -- especially to great white juvenilles.

Some 50 million years ago, the Earth shifted to a cooler climate. Here’s why

He was one chompy boy.

The use of electronic deterrents could avoid many potentially fatal shark bites.

It's an apolcayptic scenario, but researchers say it's still possible to reverse the trend with proper policies

I mean, who hasn't this happened to, right?

We could learn a thing or two from sharks about fighting microbial infections.

It's adorable and quite harmless.

This is not the Nemo you're looking for.

Scientists sink their teeth in the great white's genome

" teeth are the size of a sand grain. Without a microscope you'd just throw them away," says one of ...

The largest fish in history may have been doomed by its active metabolism that couldn't keep up with a tough ...

A ferocious predator actually enjoys a vegetarian snack from time to time.

Lessons from the fastest-swimming shark on the planet.

The method could open a breakthrough for shark research.

Yes, these sharks live inside a volcano.

We're literally eating the viability of tomorrow's oceans.

We've just started discovering the tip of the iceberg in terms of deep sea creatures.

Specifically, they put their shoulders into it.

Some 20 million years ago, both the Atlantic and the Pacific were haunted by a huge shark the size of ...

The biggest fish in the pond.

A groundbreaking study found a giant lurking beneath the Arctic might be the oldest living vertebrate today.

We now have shark vision.

Flap your hands like a shark.

Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like, cartilaginous fish that lived from the early Permian (~290 m.y. ago) all through ...

Sharks have a reputation of solitary predators. They're not the life of the party, sort to say. One new research ...

Researchers at University of Hawaii, Manoa in collaboration with a team from the University of Tokyo were surprised to find ...

At least in one aspect, sharks behave as world class mathematicians - although the cause may be sensibleness more than ...

An accurate depiction of what Shark Week is all about these days. I've given up on watching TV years ago ...

A new study investigated the circumstances under which a 15-year-old kitesurfing male died after a tiger shark attacked him in ...

We've been telling you on and on - millions and millions of sharks are perishing each year, mostly due to ...

Sharks are the ultimate predators, comfortably sitting at the very top of the food chain; but even they have their ...

Sharks are in a dire position right now, with their numbers decreasing by the millions each year. However, conservationists failed ...

Would you eat shark fin soup? Please, tell me that the answer is 'NO!'. Nearly a third of all shark ...