Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The backs of the Shortfin Mako Shark range from a metallic indigo blue to deep purple while their sides are generally silver.© ...

Virginia Tech researchers successfully tagged a young shortfin mako shark in the Mediterranean during the summer of 2023, the first time that this has been done in the region. These sharks are ...

Tunas, billfishes, and some sharks, such as white sharks and shortfin mako sharks, have an ability known as regional endothermy, which allows them to maintain body temperatures higher than the ambient ...

The study’s results underscore that treating northern and southern Atlantic mako populations as distinct is not just a fisheries policy decision—it’s a necessity backed by genetic evidence. “Typically ...

According to researchers from Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI), the shortfin mako shark is getting overfished at an unsustainably-high rate. Image Credit: Pixabay ...

While they were out at the Isles of Shoals, there was an unusual event down in Provincetown on Cape Cod, where the Center for Coastal Studies is located.  Thousands of IIlex illecebrosus (shortfin) ...