The diet of a great hammerhead is high-risk, high-reward. Hunting sharks is more difficult and more dangerous than hunting ...

In times of scarcity, one blacktip shark could even keep a hammerhead going for up to two months. Comparatively, the same ...

This discovery of a new hammerhead shark species was no cause for celebration. It took Florida International University researchers years to separate Sphyrna alleni, also known as the shovelbill ...

Warming waters could mean hammerhead sharks are just the first of many new shark species showing up off Cape Cod.

Sphyrna alleni is a new hammerhead shark species named for the late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, according to a news release Monday from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

The female great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran), which measured around 14 feet (4.3 meters) long, was discovered April 20 in the shallows near Orange Beach.

BAHAMAS, CARIBBEAN SEA - DECEMBER 2007: A great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran) swimming close ... More to the surface on December 24, 2007 in Bimini, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea. Sphyrna mokarran ...

Object Details Collector Seth E. Meek Samuel F. Hildebrand Expedition Smithsonian Biological Survey, Panama Canal Zone Ocean/Sea/Gulf North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea Record Last Modified 25 Oct ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to record in near real-time the migration of a pregnant scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador to Isla ...

A study published Thursday in the journal Science shows how one species, Sphyrna lewini or scalloped hammerhead sharks, stay warm during their nightly dives: They skip the frills and close their ...

Despite increasing protection measures, these fish are among the world’s most endangered animals. New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.

Sphyrna alleni is a new hammerhead shark species named for the late Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, according to a news release Monday from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.