An extremely rare Greenland shark that washed up on the U.K coast died of a brain infection that has never before been recorded in the species. Rosie Woodroffe—a biologist at the Zoological Society of ...

This is the first known case of meningitis in a Greenland shark. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The super-rare Greenland shark ...

Faced with a rash of shark deaths marked by brain swelling, Canadian and American scientists are trying to solve a marine mystery. By Kyle Shaw The first great white shark was found dead in August ...

Last month, a Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) washed ashore on a beach in Cornwall, England. Now, experts have confirmed the shark died from a brain infection called meningitis. It is the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about shark migration, why woodpeckers are "metalheads," and how the brain interprets the word "not." It's time now for our ...

It’s a brain-eating bacteria that causes sharks to become so disorientated, they wash up on dry land. Shark Lab director Chris Lowe believes that’s what caused the beaching of a six-foot-long thresher ...