As OCEARCH wraps up its 2025 fieldwork in Atlantic Canada, new shark taggings and fresh pings from CONTENDER reveal critical ...

A small group of leopard sharks has been seen – and caught on film – engaging in a three-way bout of reproductive hanky-panky in the wild. It's the first time scientists have documented this mating ...

A global threat to sharks is overfishing, but localized threats to their survival include habitat loss and pollution.

Sharks, skates and rays adapt their growth and reproduction to changing food availability, a new study reveals. Led by Newcastle University, the study analysed how many young and how quickly a ...

The frilled shark, a living fossil from the Cretaceous period, boasts primitive features like an eel-like body and frilled gill slits. This deep-sea predator, rarely seen, offers insights into ...

An autopsy of a female shark caught in fishing gear near the coastal village of Jisr az-Zarqa, south of Haifa, found it died ...

Nature's oldest creatures defy aging rules. Greenland sharks live nearly 400 years. Ocean quahogs reach over 500 years.