The basking shark Cetorhinus maximus is a plankton feeding shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) distributed worldwide in boreal to warm temperature waters. The presence in Spanish and Portuguese Iberian ...

The Brazilian fish fauna is still poorly known with respect to its diversity and conservation status, particularly of freshwater species. Human activities and population growth are rapidly impacting ...

The Baltic Sea is bordered by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the northern coasts of central and eastern Europe, and the Danish Islands. Some folks may not imagine that this inland sea as home to many ...

1 Shark Research Committee, Cumbria, UK. 2 Shark Research Committee, Chatsworth, USA. The shark cage diving industry has historically been a topic of controversy. While it offers an opportunity to ...

YORK (WGME) -- Beaches in the town of York are under a cautionary advisory, but remain open after a shark sighting on Monday morning. A video sent to CBS 13 shows a massive shark swimming by a ...

This annotated bibliography is an attempt to bring together all available published records on the parasitic isopods of Chondrichthian fishes as a basic reference source. An effort was made to ...

Bonn, Germany, May 22, 2008 (IUCN/Wiley-Blackwell) – The first study to determine the global status of 21 species of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays reveals that 11 of them are threatened with ...