The adult female silky shark, nicknamed "Genie" in honor of late shark ecologist Dr. Eugenie Clark, was tagged with a fin-mount satellite transmitter near Wolf Island to the north of the Galapagos ...

A silky shark with a chunk taken out of its dorsal fin regrew much of its lost appendage, according to photographs taken of the fish nearly a year apart. Research describing the elasmobranch’s ...

An adult male silky shark was spotted with a huge chunk of its fin missing. A year later, it had almost completely regrown. Here's the amazing story behind the discovery. When you purchase through ...

One shark's odyssey across thousands of kilometers of ocean has alerted scientists to the importance of international cooperation regarding marine animal survival. In a recent study, the adult ...

Its bulging, glassy eyes peer eerily at the camera. Its mouth curls upward, revealing a terrifying smile. Its teeth are sharp and tiny. The clown-like shark that looks more like a nightmare than ...

They’re not as fast as the rest of the shark family, but they still need their eyes to spot schools of prey and to aid in general navigation. The tiny teeth-like features covering the eyes might ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about shark migration, why woodpeckers are "metalheads," and how the brain interprets the word "not." It's time now for our ...

A silky shark named Genie traveled from the Galapagos Islands out to the open ocean and back – over 17,000 miles – over the course of a year and a half. This is the longest recorded migration for a ...