A worrying new trend in shark behavior This phenomenon is highlighted in the documentary Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie, ...

Sharks are often portrayed as aggressive hunters, yet most species show little interest in people. Their behaviour is shaped by instinct, diet, and the need to conserve energy, which means they spend ...

Popular culture portrays sharks as silent, solitary predators, but a new study suggests they have a much richer social life than previously thought. The research, published in the journal Animal ...

Greenland sharks look like they shouldn’t be able to see much of anything. They live in near-total darkness, drift through freezing water, and usually have parasites attached directly to their eyes.

Editor's note: The full version of this story was originally published in 2016 as part of a series related to Shark Week that year. As we start to anticipate this year's Shark Week in July (start the ...

Sharks get a bad rap in most media. On the very rare occasions when a shark attacks a human, even when there are warnings that sharks are in the area, the sharks are at fault and anti-shark campaigns ...

Can taking Metro prevent shark bites? That's the contention of an ad in stations and trains throughout the region. It's part of a Metro public relations campaign to highlight the effects of climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all sharks pose the same level of risk to humans. While the vast majority of species rarely interact with people, a small ...

Tourists in Japan look at a whale shark through the world’s largest acrylic panoramic window at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in 2003. Getty Fans of the 2004 animated hit “Shark Tale” may be familiar ...

Washington, DC—As Shark Week kicks off this week, more than 200 restaurants across the United States and Canada are exacerbating the rapid decline in shark species by continuing to serve an expensive ...

When Tropical Storm Hilary hit Southern California in August 2023, the first of its kind to make direct landfall this century, most people were focused on the flooding. They weren’t paying attention ...