Search results for Sharks

Plants & Animals Dec 15, 2025

Social connections slow aging in dolphins, echoing patterns seen in humans

Male bottlenose dolphins that form friendships age more slowly than loners, new research shows.

Ecology Dec 11, 2025

Racing towards great white sharks in Australia

Sensible people might prefer to flee at torpedo speed from a great white shark, but there's one job in Australia that pays you to race toward the predators.

Ecology Dec 10, 2025

Rule-breaking rampant in whale shark tourism hub

A new study led by University of South Florida biologist Lucas Griffin has found that tour boats and swimmers routinely violate Mexico's whale shark tourism rules—even when the waters are far less crowded than the law allows.

Plants & Animals Dec 3, 2025

Lemon shark caught preying on invasive freshwater fish in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil

Researchers recorded lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) preying on an invasive species, the jaguar cichlid (Parachromis managuensis), for the first time. This observation was made in Sueste Bay in March 2024. Sueste Bay ...

Plants & Animals Dec 3, 2025

'Jaws' impact may be wearing off as shark perceptions soften

Teeth. Ocean. Predator. These are the three most common words used to describe sharks, according to a new global survey published in Wildlife Research, eliciting 1,000 different text responses.

Ecology Nov 28, 2025

Over 70 shark, ray species win new wildlife trade protections

The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a move conservationists hailed as a "historical win."

Ecology Nov 27, 2025

Bull shark attack kills woman, injures man at remote Australian beach

A bull shark killed a woman swimming off a remote beach in Australia's eastern state of New South Wales Thursday while a man was seriously injured and may have been saved by the "heroic" efforts of a passerby.

Plants & Animals Nov 27, 2025

New protections for oceanic whitetip sharks, but not eels

The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark but rejected a proposal to protect more species of eel.

Plants & Animals Nov 26, 2025

Shark strongholds: Remote Pacific islands host thriving populations as coastal marine reserves falter

One of the most comprehensive surveys to date of shark and other large predator fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) ocean finds that remote marine protected areas (MPAs)—including the Galapagos, Malpelo, Clipperton, ...

Ecology Nov 24, 2025

Rhino horn sales, shark protection on wildlife talks agenda

Global wildlife talks opened Monday, with votes expected on increased shark protection, a bid to allow limited rhino horn sales and a push to restrict the trade in eels.

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