Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.

Whether that’s true or not, who knows. But sharks and humans interacting, particularly in a violent way, is extremely ...

Every egg case examined contained plastic particles, raising urgent questions about how pollution may be affecting sharks ...

The Indo-Pacific leopard shark is an endangered species. Discover how one group is helping to rebuild the population.

For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.

Florida tops the U.S. in shark bites in 2025, including some in the Southwest part of the state, but Australia had the most ...

Shark attacks in 2025 were back to a normal level after a down year in 2024. California continues to overindex in unprovoked ...

The southern sleeper shark is a large, slow-moving species of deepwater shark typically found across the Southern Ocean from central Chile to the sub-Antarctic Islands. While it is well adapted to ...

In a world-first discovery, researchers have found an electrical shark deterrent used at Cocos (Keeling) Islands was effective at reducing the number of fish taken off fishing hooks by sharks—a ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do hammerhead sharks have hammer-shaped ...