When someone says "shark," the first images that come to mind for many people are rather typical – great whites, bull sharks and tiger sharks. But there are some species lurking beneath the sea that ...

Diego Cardeñosa has loved sharks ever since he was a child. The Colombia native was never afraid of them when he visited his beloved beach. Instead, he was fascinated with how sharks move through ...

Sharks have had a tough time since the 1970s, when overfishing, habitat loss and a growing trade in their fins began to cut ...

The most fin-tastic exhibit on the Strip is adding to its roster. Mandalay Bay’s Shark Reef unveiled its new “Rocky Coast” exhibit this week, featuring four new species of sharks including the leopard ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability.

Many shark species are capable of delivering a deadly bite to humans. Here is a list of sharks that data suggest are the deadliest threats to beachgoers. The International Shark Attack File is the ...

It’s a hard life, being a shark. You’re already fighting off extinction at all hours; you’re working against a 50-year-old bad rap that’s left millions of people convinced you’re a soulless ocean ...

A haunting new ‘ghost shark’ species with glowing eyes straight out of a horror movie has been discovered off the coast of Thailand. Scientists with the Pacific Shark Research Center (PSRC) discovered ...

An ancient shark called Glikmanius careforum was about 10 to 12 feet long and had a powerful bite. Paleontologists in Kentucky and Alabama discovered fossils belonging to three new ancient shark ...

A tiny shark species dating back hundreds of millions of years has been identified at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the National Park Service announced Monday. The identification was made ...

A shortfin mako shark was spotted for the first time in the urban waters of Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema Beach in late March. The Pinnacle Gazette reported that footage was captured by Andrew Macau, a ...