Shark stories travel faster than sharks. What matters for trip planning is the boring, measurable stuff: where confirmed incidents cluster, which water activities show up most often, and how to reduce ...

A new set of global criteria will help identify important areas for sharks, rays, and chimaeras to secure the protection they desperately need in the face of extinction. To date, shark, ray, and ...

Shark season off the coast of Massachusetts is in full swing. The Chatham-based Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app has reported great whites coming as close as 50 feet from the ...

Some 40 species of shark are thought to inhabit the waters surrounding the UK. Many only visit in the warmer months, though according to the Shark Trust charity there are 21 permanent resident species ...

An international research team led by Faviel A. López-Romero of the University of Vienna investigated how the jaw shape of sharks has changed over the course of evolution. Their conclusion: in the ...