sharks
Sydney Woman’s ‘Leg Trailing Behind Her’ After Bull Shark Attack
“The whole thing was totally surreal and I still haven’t processed it all, to be honest.”
2023: The Year Animals Fought Back
Perhaps in the future, we'll look back and say: It all started with the orcas.
Harrowing Details of Louisiana Shark / Meth Bust Emerge From Bayou
Shrimping vessel contained too many sharks, meth, police say.
A Pair of Orcas Is Brutally Killing Great White Sharks in South Africa
Two orcas named Port and Starboard have been killing great whites and tearing out their organs, scientists say, causing sharks to flee the area en masse.
A Journey to the Crystal Warehouse, Home to a Decaying Great White Shark
The pickled shark has been airlifted to a wholesale crystal emporium-slash-mini dinosaur park by an eccentric natural history entrepreneur.
Swimmer Killed in Sydney’s First Fatal Shark Attack in Almost 60 Years
More than a dozen beaches have been closed while authorities search for the man-eating shark.
Nobody Knows What Megalodon Really Looked Like, Scientists Say
The appearance of the biggest shark ever remains a mystery.
The Ugly Truth About Sharks Being Killed for Cosmetics
The overfishing of sharks, partly driven by the beauty industry, isn't just endangering shark species–it's also worsening the climate crisis.
Hundreds of Sharks Are Swarming People’s Backyards Because of a Toxic ‘Red Tide’
A toxic algae bloom called “red tide” decimates coastal Florida yearly, killing all types of fish and forcing sharks out of their natural habitat.
90% of Sharks Were Mysteriously Wiped Out and Never Recovered, Scientists Find
"They made it through the asteroid impacts, they've made it through global warming, global cooling, and all sorts of things. And yet this event that we didn't know about wiped out 90 percent of them."
Scientists Transport Shark Sperm Across U.S. in Unprecedented Study
Scientists conducted the largest effort to artificially inseminate sharks, an experiment that produced the first shark hatchlings ever fertilized by cold-stored semen.