Research has shown that pelagic sharks tend to have longer, narrower fins compared to their benthic relatives, which typically possess shorter, rounded fins. A key to understanding how sharks navigate ...

Combining lasers and sharks may sound like a bad idea, but marine ecologists are banking on it to help save some of the ...

A popular beach location on Florida‘s Gulf Coast, Destin is also home to many sharks. Because of its warm, clear waters, sharks flock to this area as well as others like it off the coast of the ...

Not many scientific studies sound like a Bond film, but ours really does involve lasers, sharks and doctors (of research, not ...

Top to bottom: oceanic whitetip shark, great hammerhead shark. Credit: Zach Christensen / Northeastern When images of a dead 600-pound tiger shark hanging on an Alabama dock hit social media this ...

Juvenile bull sharks are not all feeding or behaving the same way, even within the same nursery. These individual differences ...

“The Jaws Effect” is what scientists call people’s irrational fear of sharks based on Steven Spielberg’s 1975 hit summer movie, “Jaws.” The great white shark in the movie was so terrifying that it ...

Sharks have a branding problem. For many people, the word alone conjures images of horror: sleek predators stalking through open water, ominous fins slicing through the surf, rows of teeth on full ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) The world’s oceans are home ...

Sharks are some of the ocean’s most efficient predators, but they possess a peculiar trait that still puzzles scientists: tonic immobility. This strange behavior occurs when sharks are turned upside ...

A dolphin was nestled in a deepwater hole hidden within the shallow waters of Shark Bay, Australia. Richard Conner, one of the world's top dolphin reserchers, spied it from his boat as he headed for ...