The name "carpet" comes from their appearance; many (but not all) carpet sharks have markings reminiscent of a fancy rug. Carpet shark species include: Some people think of the hammerhead shark as ...

A ghostly white deep-sea shark has been discovered off the coast of Albania.The critically endangered angular roughshark ...

The Carboniferous Period (which began 359 million years ago) is known as the 'golden age of sharks'. An extinction event at the end of the Devonian killed off at least 75% of all species on Earth, ...

Over one quarter of all known shark species are considered threatened or endangered. Sharks are apex predators in many ecosystems, and their disappearance is causing dangerous imbalances in marine ...

Scientists have spotted a deep-sea “ghost” white shark with a rare genetic disorder, shedding light on how such abnormalities ...

In 2015, 33 people were attacked by sharks of all species in the oceans off Australia, according to data from the Taronga Conservation Society Australia. Even though he doesn’t understand their ...

Do all sharks have sharp, pointy teeth? Myth! Sharks have teeth adapted to their individual diets. While some species like lemon sharks do indeed have pointed teeth to help catch their slippery ...

All that got Lee was a fistful of bloody knuckles ... (The small litter size of many other shark species makes them especially vulnerable to overfishing.) Put together, these characteristics ...

Makos, the fastest shark species, have almost disappeared completely ... assessed as the most threatened family of marine fish - all bar one is critically endangered Two of the wedgefish species ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Researchers have confirmed the existence of a new species of shark in South America. The shovellbill shark, Sphyrna alleni, was hiding in plain sight due to its resemblance to the ...

In some species, the female will produce unfertilised eggs ... Hammerhead (family Sphyrnidae), blue (Prionace glauca) and lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) all produce offspring in this ...

Of the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world ... Fixing them keeps us all connected – and has changed our understanding of the ocean.