Sharks have had a tough time since the 1970s, when overfishing, habitat loss and a growing trade in their fins began to cut ...

Ocean depths hide sharks with extraordinary features. These creatures, from the Goblin shark's snout to the Thresher shark's ...

Over 800 marine species were newly discovered after two years of collaborative efforts by scientists, governments, museums and others participating in the Ocean Census, a global alliance founded to ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has enacted sweeping new trade protections for sharks and rays while nixing proposals to do the same for sea cucumbers and eels at ...

Essential to marine ecosystems, sharks maintain the balance of the food web as apex predators, preventing any single species ...

The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. The habitat of thirty species of sharks, ...

New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras — many of which are already at risk of extinction. Chondrichthyes, ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability.

A small bioluminescent shark so rare that there are only two specimens in the entire world has been discovered in the Gulf of ...

North Carolina waters host at least 14 shark species, varying by region and season. Bull sharks cause most local bites due to size, aggression and fresh water access. Avoid shark encounters by ...

A new species of shark was discovered in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park.The ancient shark is called a "Macadens Olsoni."Experts say it had a distinct curved row of teeth, used to crush small ...

As sea surface temperature rises, some shark species could linger in northern waters nearly a month longer than usual, disturbing the ecosystem and interrupting conservation efforts, a Stony Brook ...