In the absence of great white sharks, copper sharks ( Carcharhinus brachyurus) are moving in to fill the vacant ecological ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Take a dive into the world of sharks and discover their biology, while also learning how to protect these animals in the wild with Point Defiance Zoo's Eye-to-Eye Shark Dives. Since ...

To kick it off, here are 17 fun facts about sharks: 1.The goblin shark has the fastest fish jaws in the ocean. It's the only shark with jaws that extend forward — at the speed of 10 feet per second!

They may look mean and menacing, but it turns out the juvenile Great White sharks along the Southern California coast are quite picky when it comes to their prime habitat temperature. "We found ...

Shark encounters are rare but incredibly dangerous. 10-year-old girl suffers gruesome injuries in shark attack off US coast: ...

The world’s oceans are home to an exquisite variety of sharks and rays, from the largest fishes in the sea—the majestic whale shark and manta rays—to the luminescent but rarely seen deep-water lantern ...

July 14 is Shark Awareness Day, and Nat Geo's ongoing SharkFest has plenty of shows to honor the day Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

“The heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded weighed a whopping 1280 pounds.” The great hammerhead shark is found in a variety of water depths such as shallow lagoons and coral reefs, and in ...

A new study led by scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Shark Lab ...

A Louisiana aquarium has a new star — and a mystery — on its hands after a baby shark was born in a habitat without any males. The Shreveport Aquarium announced last week that Yoko the swell shark — ...

Aligning with its Environmental Awareness campaign, the Sharks Foundation raised $76,000 for Habitat for Humanity through various fundraising efforts during Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. At ...