Could protecting one shark species be quietly saving others in the same habitat? Recent observations suggest that efforts to ...

What happens when the people who once hunted a rare shark become its fiercest protectors? A single scoophead shark sighting in the Colombian Pacific shows exactly that.

Canada has prohibited shark finning since 1994 by means of a licensing requirement for fishers. In 2018, the government added a fins naturally attached (FNA) mandate for all sharks landed in Canada.

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh said “we must stop killing sharks” as he completed an “exhausting” swim in the stormy waters where Jaws was filmed. The conservationist and UN patron of the oceans has ...

Okinawa and its surrounding waters represent what marine biologists call a "shark and ray hotspot" in terms of both diversity and conservation significance. In this episode of the OIST podcast, Dr.

When Steven Spielberg's smash hit film Jaws opened in theatres in June 1975, it kindled a worldwide panic about shark bites that led many sharks to die by human hands. But as the original summer ...

Seeing these dead beasts suspended by their tails elicited a "gallows-like" feeling, he recounts, but not fear. Sharks were ...

Newer wetsuits can be designed to provide flexibility as well as protection. The scientists tested the efficacy of wetsuit materials Aqua Armour, Shark Stop, ActionTX-S and Brewster. The scientists ...

Sharks are hunted for their meat, skin, liver oil and cartilage, also being accidentally caught by industrial "longline" fishing. Sharks may elicit less sympathy than elephants or rhinos, but experts ...

Flinders University researchers in Australia tested four bite-resistant wetsuit materials against white and tiger sharks, ...