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

Summer on New England’s North Atlantic coast conjures salty breezes, striped umbrellas, and ice cream stands, all set against a backdrop of crashing waves. Coastal communities from Cape Cod to ...

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

A shark so rare it was once thought to be extinct was just spotted off the Welsh coast. The Wildlife Trust of Wales captured ...

In the depths of Earth's briny waters lurk some truly strange deep-sea creatures Rare and remarkable deep-sea creatures ...

Weird makos filmed off the California coast in a new Shark Week show raise questions about what these sharks actually are.

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

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

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely detected in various environmental media, attracting significant research and regulatory attention. This preliminary study investigated the ...

A total of 425 stomachs of night shark (Carcharhinus signatus), and 98 stomachs of scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), from longline and surface gillneters near seamounts off northeastern ...