For more than five decades, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s shark research group has worked to pull back the veil ...

Research shows the illegal shark fin trade is still occurring globally despite international protections spanning more than a ...

Every year, thousands of shark and ray fins are smuggled across international borders, hidden in plain sight in shipping containers or mislabeled among other cargo. For authorities tasked with ...

Specialists with the Sea World Foundation rescued a grey nurse shark off the coast of South West Rocks in Australia. The mature female shark had a large trace line attached to a fishing hook ...

Now, Hoyos bears a long scar as a reminder and says he hopes to see the same shark again. He is already planning to get back ...

Every Shark Week, we're reminded that there are two types of people: those who would never dip as much as a toe in the water if a shark could be within a 30 mile radius, and those who avidly consume ...

A new study has mapped whale shark stranding hotspots in Indonesian waters over the past decade and linked their occurrence ...

A routine marine survey near the island of Cabrera, just south of Mallorca, turned into a breakthrough moment when scientists ...