Overfishing, illegal fishing and increasing marketing of shark meat pose significant threats to the more than 80 species of ...

In Hawaii, the species goes unidentified in about 40 percent of incidents. “There’s a lot we don’t understand about shark bite incidents,” Meyer said in a taped statement released Friday.

Their resilience enabled them to survive numerous disasters, including the Permian-Triassic extinction which wiped out over 90% of Earth’s species. Shark History Is A Tale of Continuous ...

Over the course of a month, researchers captured 443 hours of data using an dual-frequency identification sonar ... to count and identify different shark species that traveled through the channel ...