Despite the fear they may inspire in humans, sharks have far more reason to fear us. Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction globally, mostly as a result of fishing. A team led by ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Alan Yu, was originally published by WHYY. At an ...

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

Fisheries officials in Massachusetts don’t want anglers targeting great white sharks, especially not from public beaches, and they just approved new regulations to crack down on the practice ahead of ...

THE TIGER SHARK was four times heavier than the muscular stonemason who was bracing his 190-pound, six-foot body against the shark’s first run. His 16/0 big-game reel gave line grudgingly and his ...

Young seabirds create a seasonal food source that draws tiger sharks and pushes other sharks to change where and when they ...

The ocean’s most formidable predators are often found just off the South Carolina coast this time of year. Great white sharks ...

Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico are learning to associate boat engines with food, leading to more and more cases of depredation, experts say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...