Great hammerhead sharks prefer shallow waters and are usually ... especially prey like flounders or stingrays that hide under ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition today urging the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect the great hammerhead shark under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s ...

The great hammerhead is threatened by the shark fin trade and bycatch (unwanted fish captured as a byproduct of commercial ...

With unmistakable wide, flat heads, great hammerhead sharks can reach 20 feet in length and live to be 44. Sadly these fascinating animals have declined by at least 80% over the past 70 years. So the ...

great white sharks in 2005; oceanic whitetip, smooth hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, and porbeagle sharks, plus all species of manta rays, in 2014; and thresher and silky sharks ...

These majestic sharks gather in their hundreds at huge volcanic seamounts that project out of the seabed. They come here to be cleaned and to find a mate, circling the seamount in a sort of ...

Klimley: Yes. The U.S. Navy, in fact, once considered the hammerhead the third most dangerous species after the great white and the tiger shark. (There are nine species of hammerheads, but the ...