Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)—the world's biggest fish—are one of the most charismatic marine species. They connect with the ...

Whale sharks inhabit tropical seas where prey is often scarce and unevenly distributed, forcing them to adjust continually as ...

A new study of bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo) in Florida dispelled a previous hypothesis about how the distinctive head ...

A Greenland shark stranded in Ireland was more than 150 years old but may have only just reached reproductive age. Its eyes, DNA-repair systems and scarred 34-kilogram heart offer clues to how the ...

A small cove next to a Brazilian nuclear power plant seems like the last place sharks would seek safety for their newborns, yet scientists discovered something there that is reshaping how an entire ...

A community-led monitoring project tracked a critical egg-laying habitat of the critically endangered flapper skate for more ...

Some Greenland sharks alive today may have been contemporaries of Shakespeare. With a scarred heart that beats for centuries, this deep-sea shark defies age-related decline.

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Female Greenland sharks do not become sexually mature until they are roughly 150 years old, making them the longest-lived vertebrates ever documented. Radiocarbon dating of eye-lens nuclei from 28 ...

Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad said the authorities formed an investigation team after receiving a report of a shark attack on a beachgoer in Hurghada. The investigation team confirmed that the ...

Once hunted nearly to extinction and today a conservation success story, the Atlantic’s largest reproductive colony of green ...