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 ...

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 ...

Silky sharks are the second most commonly sold species in the international shark fin trade. Although governments are expanding and connecting protected areas in the region, experts say better ...

In addition to the silky shark, scientists observed scalloped hammerhead sharks, reef fish such as damselfish and cardinalfish, and zooplankton. Scientists believe the only explanation is the ...

The silky shark aggregation in June was a first-of-its-kind sighting for the Alcatrazes Archipelago Wildlife Refuge and “reinforces the importance of the Refuge in protecting different stages of ...

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 ...