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 ...

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 study about the shark has been published this month in the Journal of Marine Sciences. The researchers wrote: "This study demonstrates partial fin regeneration of a silky shark (Carcharhinus ...

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 ...

A super-healing shark regrew a section of its fin after suffering a traumatic injury at the hands of humans near Jupiter in Florida, researchers have found. The silky shark (Carcharhinus ...

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 ...

Move aside, Michael Phelps – there's a new record-breaking swimmer in town. A silky shark has broken the world record after swimming a staggering 17,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

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 ...

They are found throughout tropical and sub-tropical waters. Silky shark numbers have declined globally due to industrial-scale fishing. Targeted for their fins and meat, they are also frequently ...

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 ...

By Tim Balk A Canadian tourist trying to photograph a shark in shallow water at a beach ... to engage with the animal” in an effort to take pictures of it before she was bitten on Feb. 7 ...