A German tourist died from a rare shark attack near the Canary Islands while she was swimming alongside her catamaran off the northwest coast of the popular travel destination. The unidentified 30 ...

A woman has died following a shark attack in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa. The 31-year-old German national lost a leg in the ...

For the first time ever, researchers have found evidence of a top-of-the-food chain shark being killed by a predator, according to a study published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers ...

A 16-year-old boy was attacked and killed by a shark in Jamaica earlier this week, reports say. The teen left home and went spearfishing alone early Monday in Trelawny, a northern parish about 20 ...

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 ...

A shark attacked and killed a 16-year-old Jamaican high school student whose body was found in waters just north of the island, authorities said. Police identified the victim as Jahmari Reid from ...

Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, says, 'Shark-like scales from the Late Ordovician have been found, but no teeth. If these were from sharks it would suggest that the earliest ...

The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

Measuring the Greenland shark’s growth rate is challenging because individuals are rarely recaptured. However, one shark tagged in 1936 had only grown 2.3 inches when it reappeared 16 years later.

A 16-year-old boy was brutally mauled by a shark while swimming alone off the coast of Jamaica, marking an extremely rare attack for the Caribbean island, authorities said. Divers found Jahmari ...

Many travelers may be concerned or even skittish about swimming in coastal waters during their vacations, and some buy shark-bite deterrents to increase their margin of safety. Do these deterrents ...

This isn't the first case of "shark cannibalism," said Jon Dodd, executive director of the Atlantic Shark Institute, which helped lead the study. Larger sharks eating smaller sharks is a common ...