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?

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

The great white shark is one of six mature females that were tagged off California last October as part of a project to ...

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

A viral image circulating on social media claims to show a 392-year-old Greenland shark discovered in the Arctic Ocean. The striking figure has fueled fascination with one of the planet’s most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have documented Gulf torpedo rays (Torpedo sinuspersici) using electric shocks to deter large sharks. Photograph by ...

If you’re a shark movie fan, you’ve probably watched more than one scene in which a shark roars as it attacks its prey. But according to shark expert Greg Skomal, such a sound is just Hollywood magic.

Great white sharks have a reputation for being some of the most ferocious animals in the ocean, owing in part to their mouth full of sharp, serrated teeth. Most people believe that they are born as ...

"Kara has visited Canada! Despite my suspicions, we got a number of quality position estimates that confirm Kara is the first Great White Shark we have ever tracked to British Columbia," Domeier wrote ...

For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.