How do four species of sharks share a rock barely 100 metres long in the middle of the Pacific? New research at Mexico’s Roca ...

The newly named big-nosed lanternshark, Etmopterus bulbosus, is just 21 centimetres long but carries a surprisingly ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Florida International University (FIU) scientists have finally ...

A nighttime research expedition off Papua New Guinea uncovered a previously unknown shark that walks across the seafloor. Also known as walking sharks or epaulette sharks, these animals inhabit ...

Deep in the waters of Mauritius in the southwest Indian Ocean lives a newly discovered species of lanternshark. These fish ...

One of the world's largest shark species, a whale shark, is the latest to be tracked by ocean research nonprofit OCEARCH, in ...

Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on ...

Shark populations are declining significantly due to human activities and a third of species are threatened. Participation in ...

A hammerhead shark species discovered by FIU scientists finally has a name and its namesake is the late Paul G. Allen, philanthropist and cofounder of Microsoft. The existence of the new species, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Twenty-nine houndsharks and 16 gulper sharks are up for listing on CITES Appendix II at the wildlife trade regulator’s summit in Uzbekistan this ...

When someone says "shark," the first images that come to mind for many people are rather typical – great whites, bull sharks and tiger sharks. But there are some species lurking beneath the sea that ...

Cristina Zenato has reached bare-handed into the mouths of wild sharks over 400 times, and she says the real danger has ...