“Most people know to avoid the business end, the mouth, but may not be aware that shark skin is very rough and being slapped by a thrashing tail can also do damage,” Chisholm wrote in an email ...

The image, taken during a recent OCEARCH expedition, shows the shark with its mouth open, revealing row after row of irregular teeth. The moment was captured with a barley underwater camera ...

A video shows a huge and vulnerable thresher shark washing up on a beach in Queens, New York, on Monday afternoon. Witness Zoe Berger took the 32-second video of the fish on the sand struggling to ...

Many travelers may be concerned or even skittish about swimming in coastal waters during their vacations, and some buy shark-bite deterrents to increase their margin of safety. Do these deterrents ...

Its gaping mouth has six rows of teeth in its upper jaw, and nine rows below, for a total of about 1,500 tiny, hooked teeth. The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly ...

They are large-bodied and display a mouthful of sharp teeth that protrude in all directions, even when the mouth is shut ... Sand tigers are the only shark known to come to the surface and ...

A huge variety of animals produce eggs. These help to protect and provide for offspring as they develop. There are over 500 species of shark living in waters around the world and the majority give ...

As an older one breaks or wears down, it simply falls out of the front of the mouth and onto the sea floor, as a new tooth takes its place. Depending on species and diet, over its entire lifetime a ...

Over one quarter of all known shark species are considered threatened or endangered. Sharks are apex predators in many ecosystems, and their disappearance is causing dangerous imbalances in marine ...

One naturalist with Blue Kingdom Whale and Wildlife Tours in Anacortes, Washington captured a stunning moment during a ...