When biologists in Massachusetts placed tracking tags on porbeagle sharks, they hoped to learn more about the massive hunters’ habitats. What they got was a murder mystery. The victim was a ...

great white sharks in 2005; oceanic whitetip, smooth hammerhead, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, and porbeagle sharks, plus all species of manta rays, in 2014; and thresher and silky sharks ...

If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable, given almost every depiction of the ancient apex predators across ...

That was the case when a team from the University of Auckland in New Zealand noticed a 10-foot-long shortfin mako shark adorned with an unexpected passenger. “What was that orange patch on its head?

An annual survey of marine animals has counted the fewest basking sharks in its 20 years. Ex-fisherman Peter Williams says it was rare to see a porbeagle shark swimming so close to the boat.