Some of the largest animals in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans occasionally come across a nightmare in the form of a shark no bigger than a wiener dog. Less than 2 feet long, the cookie cutter ...

The cookiecutter shark, a small species about 43 to 56 centimetres long, is so named because it feeds by biting mouthfuls of flesh out of larger animals. This leaves a circular "cookie-shaped ...

The cookie cutter shark is suspected of biting through an inflatable catamaran off Cairns causing it to deflate. Does it surprise you hearing of a shark of its type repeatedly biting such an object?

The databases are massive and even include sequences for cookie cutter sharks, which have only been documented in a handful of bites, Kraft said. “We have tested this method on wetsuits as well ...