Shark activity increases during summer months due to warmer waters and increased food sources. While various shark species, including great whites and hammerheads, inhabit North Carolina waters, shark ...

Populations of reef sharks and rays continue to dramatically decline all across the world, largely because of overfishing. To help bring them back, scientists need to understand which sharks and rays ...

Research has shown that pelagic sharks tend to have longer, narrower fins compared to their benthic relatives, which typically possess shorter, rounded fins. A key to understanding how sharks navigate ...

The cuts left by a cookiecutter shark are recognizable for their uniformity, helping to identify the species by bite marks. Photo courtesy of University of Hawaii A Hawaii study has found that a ...

With an uptick in great white shark activity at SoCal beaches, a team from the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab tags the giant ...

Scientists may have been getting shark ages wrong. A new study uses chemical signals in bones to track age more accurately.