"We've had a couple [spotted] off Mississippi and Alabama this year already." Researchers gain insight into marine predator's behavior after spotting 9-foot shark: 'Brought this to the next level' ...

The image, which first circulated several years ago on social media, was taken during a 2016 study and resurfaced on X this week.

Scientists recorded the first shark in Antarctic waters when a sleeper shark passed a deep-sea camera in near-freezing darkness.

As wildlife tourism grows, scientists are asking a bigger question: can we bring people closer to nature without reshaping the ecosystems they came to see?

A rare encounter with a juvenile great white shark caught by fishermen in April 2023 has reignited scientific interest in the mysterious population of these apex predators in the Mediterranean Sea. By ...

After a series of shark encounters off the Carolinas in 2015, two scientists went on a mission. Dr. Greg Skomal and National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Merchant demonstrated firsthand how they ...

Australia Antarctic Shark In this image made from video and released by the University of Western Australia, a sleeper shark swims into the spotlight of a video camera in Antarctica in January 2025.

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MELBOURNE, Australia — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks didn ...