Sharks as a species are still going strong, though, and they remain one of the oldest creatures on earth! Unfortunately, overfishing has endangered over one third of today’s sharks—so the ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

New research shows that overfishing has halved the populations of sharks and rays, triggering a loss of ecological functions ...

By tagging the young mako shark, researchers from Virginia Tech and the College of Natural Resources and Environment gathered ...

Costa Rica is home to 93 species of sharks and rays, representing 8% of the global diversity of these marine animals. However, over half of these species (56%) are endangered. Locally, they face ...

A new analysis reveals that overfishing has caused populations of chondrichthyan fishes -- sharks, rays, and chimaeras -- to decline by more than 50 per cent since 1970. To determine the consequences, ...

Five endangered endemic shark and ray species - whitefin swellshark, longnose skate, greeneye spurdog, grey skate and coastal ...