The shark you are most likely to catch while fishing, the smooth dogfish grows to 3 feet long. If you hook one, luckily the teeth are blunted cusps and not the daggers other shark species come ...

Shark Week: A Hampton Beach biologist’s perspective on the ocean’s apex predators Now to their teeth. The teeth are the only hard part of their body, called denticles. Sharks have several rows ...

While white sharks, hammerheads and thresher sharks are more commonly known, smooth dogfish sharks are the most popular sharks in the New York/New Jersey Bight Apex — the waters from Fire Island ...

Rays and smooth dogfish have more abundant populations. Dogfish, a smaller fish, are fished commercially for their meat and are less likely to be discarded after finning.

Sand tiger sharks — which have two large dorsal fins with no spines — are most often confused with smooth dogfish, but sand tigers have very noticeable long thin teeth while smooth dogfish do not.

Five shark species inhabit Long Island Sound, feeding on bluefish and menhaden. Here’s when they are here.

Shark sightings have become more common along Long Island’s shores this summer — and not just the mostly harmless, abundant dogfish.

The deep-sea predator had “large” eyes and rows of teeth. It turned out to be a new species. Scientists decided to survey deep-sea dogfish sharks off the coast of India.

Myrtle Beach area shark’s teeth experts offer their tips for finding the sought-after beach souvenirs. The ocean along the Grand Strand has a number of sharks, offering plenty of chances to find ...

Dogfish shark There are two varieties of the Dogfish shark – smooth and spiny. Spiny Dogfish can grow up to four feet and have two dorsal fins with ungrooved large spines.

Connecticut is home to five species of sharks: the spiny dogfish, the smooth dogfish, the dusky shark, the brown shark, also known as the sandbar shark, and the sand tiger shark.