Scientists and governments are calling for the strongest international protections yet for sharks and rays, citing ...

These top predators eat smaller animals, balancing the populations of fish and other marine life. For example, sharks protect ...

Researchers of the UAB have shown that sex hormones accumulate in the skin of sharks. This finding opens a new way for the ...

Sharks don’t exactly have the best reputation. Decades of fear-driven stories and films have made sure of that. But if you actually study them– what they do, how they survive– it becomes clear they’re ...

Trees first appeared on Earth during the Devonian period, around 385 million years ago, and dinosaurs about 100 million years later, between 250 to 200 million years ago. But you might be surprised to ...

Our human senses have evolved over millions of years to detect information important to our survival. Through a sense of ...

A tiny shark named Yoko is making waves — not just at the Shreveport Aquarium, where she was born, but in the scientific ...

Researchers from the UAB have shown that sex hormones accumulate in the skin of sharks. This finding opens a new way for the ...

Not every shark gives birth the same way. In fact, says Link, “sharks have multiple ways to reproduce.” She breaks this down into three distinct ways: Oviparous: Sharks that reproduce in this ...

The transcriptome (or sum total of the messenger RNA) of the white shark showed greater similarity to the human transcriptome ...

When Jaws first aired, scientists didn’t know how long sharks took to reproduce, or how many offspring a white shark could ...