A drop of seawater may be the key to finding and saving the world’s most elusive hammerhead sharks. A Florida International University (FIU) scientist has developed a powerful new test that can ...

If added to the Endangered Species List, the shark would be the first granted protections under the current Trump ...

By Napat Wesshasartar MAITON ISLAND, Thailand, Jan 26 (Reuters) - After a brief countdown by conservationists, a young ...

All-women ReShark team succeeded in breeding endangered zebra sharks on Kri Island, Raja Ampat. As many as 57 sharks have ...

By Victoria Schneider Sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean are facing an extinction crisis. Almost half of the region’s 270 known species (46%) are currently threatened with extinction. A ...

WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity reached a legal agreement with NOAA Fisheries today requiring the agency to decide by Aug. 12 whether the smalltail shark warrants protection under the ...

Despite more than a decade of international efforts to curb the trade of threatened shark species, new research led by FIU marine biologist Diego Cardeñosa and Demian Chapman, director of the Shark ...

The illegal shark trade is a transnational challenge, and so is the solution.

Sharks are often imagined as massive, powerful predators cruising through open water, but not all sharks are great white-sized. Along the coasts of the United States and in the deep offshore waters, ...