Small sharks and several threatened species were the most likely to die after being caught. These included thresher sharks and hammerheads. Mortality was also higher for smaller species, those that ...

Clicklike noises made by a small species of shark represent the first instance of a shark actively producing sound ...

A species of houndshark called Mustelus lenticulatus makes sharp clicking noises when handled. Until now, sharks as a group ...

Researchers long believed sharks to be silent animals based on their anatomy, but unprecedented evidence shows the rig shark ...

Known for their powerful ability to launch out of the water in pursuit of prey, the loss of great white sharks from False Bay ...

Shark teeth from museum jaws can now reveal what sharks ate decades ago. New research shows preservation chemicals don’t ...

Now, a groundbreaking new study has revealed one shark species may be more vocal than previously thought, making noises comparable to the sound of a balloon popping. For the first time, scientists ...

The clicking of flattened teeth, discovered by accident, could be “the first documented case of deliberate sound production in sharks,” evolutionary biologist Carolin Nieder, of Woods Hole ...

Researchers have discovered a new-to-science species of ancient shark during an ongoing paleontological resource inventory at ...

For the first time, a group of killer whales has been documented preying upon a prickly shark, a rare deep-sea dweller, according to a study published on March 20 in the journal Frontiers in Fish ...

The fossilized remains of a newly discovered ancient shark species found in the depths of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park reveal not the sharp, pointy gnashers you’d associate with Hollywood’s ...

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