Scientists have published what is likely the first-ever scientifically recorded birthing migration for the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark (sphyrna lewini). The satellite-tagged shark ...

Scalloped hammerhead sharks hold their breath to keep their bodies warm during deep dives into cold water where they hunt prey such as deep sea squids. This discovery, published today in Science by ...

Scalloped hammerhead sharks hold their breath to keep their bodies warm during deep dives into cold water where they hunt prey such as deep sea squids, according to a study published Thursday in the ...

Sharks have been swimming in Earth’s seas over 450 million years, but some struggling shark species may be ending up on ...

Beginning in May and lasting through July, gestating females of this distinctive species will seek shallow waters in protected bays to give birth to litters of pups ranging in number from 15 to 31, ...

Even fish sometimes hold their breath in cold, dark, deep water. Scalloped hammerhead sharks living near Hawaii spend their days basking in warm surface waters. But at night, these fish hunt for squid ...

To survive as they seek food in freezing parts of the ocean, hammerhead sharks use a trick that hasn’t been observed in other fish. By Darren Incorvaia Hammerhead sharks like it warm, but for a good ...

Olaf Meynecke is affiliated with the citizen science organisation Humpbacks & Highrises and Manager of the Whales and Climate Program Jessica Meeuwig and Naima Andrea López do not work for, consult, ...

“The heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded weighed a whopping 1280 pounds.” The great hammerhead shark is found in a variety of water depths such as shallow lagoons and coral reefs, and in ...

Talk about growing pains - a recent publication in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society has highlighted that when a shark shifts its ecology, there is allometric growth in certain regions of ...