Artificial light at night (ALAN) has a negative impact on shark melatonin levels, according to a recent study from the University of Miami.

Many researchers thought the two-month absence was caused by the predation of a white shark by a group of orcas. Now a new study suggests there may be other reasons for their disappearance.

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.

The Indo-Pacific leopard shark is an endangered species. Discover how one group is helping to rebuild the population.

Scientists have captured footage of a sleeper shark farther south than ever before, suggesting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean is ...

While many kids enjoy staring at the sharks swimming gracefully through the tanks at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in ...

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For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.

Multiple animals were on the agenda at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, a meeting that occurred in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The purpose of this meeting was for governments to ...

This vessel was an attack cargo ship for the US Navy in the 1940s before becoming a cable repair ship in 1955. After many years of service, the Aeolus was scuttled (sunk on purpose) in 1988 off the ...