Many Greenland sharks suffer from parasitic copepods that cloud their eyes, effectively making them blind. The Greenland ...

2. Keep Eye Contact and Don’t Splash: If you see a shark nearby, experts suggest turning to face it. Try to maintain eye ...

A Bull Shark Eats a Varied Diet. Some sharks have specialized diets and will mostly, if not only, pursue certain prey. For example, hammerhead sharks are known to eat a diet heavy in stingrays.

Though there are many shark species in North Carolina, bites are rare, Cahoon said, noting that most shark bites occur in ...

For a long time, scientists believed that the megalodon—the biggest fish ever discovered—primarily ate whales. While the sea mammals were likely part of the prehistoric sharks’ diet, a new ...

Juvenile critically endangered great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) flock to the waters of Biscayne Bay in southern ...

The largest shark to ever live was likely the mighty megalodon ( Otodus megalodon ), which swam in prehistoric oceans from 23 to 3.6 million years ago and is now definitely extinct. Paleontologists ...

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.