Jonathan and Christine travel to Jardines de la Reina, or Gardens of the Queen, a vast marine protected area off southern ...

The return of sharks to Ashmore Reef after marine protection was enforced in 2008 shows how top predators influence not just what they eat, but how other species behave. New research reveals that ...

The Global FinPrint initiative explored the health of reefs in 58 countries through underwater cameras, discovering that almost one-fifth of these reefs lacked sharks. This alarming reduction is tied ...

The return of apex predators such as sharks can restore critical ecological balance to coral reefs, creating healthier ecosystems. New research found a rise in the shark population on Ashmore Reef, ...

Reef sharks are observed less frequently on Caribbean reefs that have high levels of diving activity and greater coastal development, according to new research published in the Journal of Applied ...

According to Australian and Canadian scientists, led by the Australian Institute of Science (AIMS), removal of sharks from the temperamental ecosystems causes what’s known as a “cascade effect.” When ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

Fossil shark scales from Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts show that the two seas never held the same number of sharks, and that borrowing a conservation target from one ocean could be wrong by an ...

For most marine ecosystems, there is no historical survey telling us what a truly intact shark population looked like. And if ...

Sharks occupy critical functional roles as apex predators and mesopredators across marine ecosystems. They structure food webs, regulate prey populations and support ecosystem resilience through ...