Thirty-three shark and twenty stingray species have been recorded swimming in seas around Greece in the last 90 years.

A long-term study in Fiji shows they form preferred social relationships, avoid certain individuals, and change how social ...

Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other ...

Becky O'Brien always wanted to work with ocean life, but she didn't realize she'd be able to do the job in the middle of the ...

Off the southern coast of Fiji’s main island, a group of bull sharks returns to the same reef, week after week, year after year. For a quarter century, divers at the Shark Reef Marine Reserve have ...

However, these 12-foot-long, solitary sharks appear to form important social bonds. A study published today in the journal Animal Behaviour finds that they create these relationships with only a few ...

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Bull sharks, it turns out, have friends. Scientists have increasingly recognized that sharks, once viewed as largely solitary creatures, have relatively complex social bonds. But studying those ...

Sharks are often viewed as solitary, but a new study—carried out on the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji—has found that rather than mixing at random, bull sharks have "active social preferences" and ...

Weighing up to 500 pounds and measuring more than 11 feet long, bull sharks are massive apex predators that can live in both saltwater and freshwater. They primarily stick to tropical coastlines and ...

Maryland could soon have a state shark. The massive predator’s fossilized teeth can still be found around the state.

Bull sharks may have a reputation as lone hunters, but new research reveals they actually form social bonds and even have preferred “friends.” After six years of observing 184 sharks in Fiji, ...