A shark that walks on land at low tide just turned up in one of the ocean's most remote corners, and scientists are already worried it could vanish before we fully understand it.

Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the ...

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, ...

Learn more about the Dudgeon walking shark (Hemiscyllium dudgeonae), what makes it so unique, and why the speices is already threatened.

It’s not just great white sharks that are taking stripers from fishermen these days. Porbeagle sharks — which stick around the Bay State all year — have been spotted several times in the last week ...

SEATTLE – There’s a new pair of apex predators in Puget Sound. Two species of shark, one of which is critically endangered in some places, have been found in South Puget Sound, sparking a bit of ...

New research reveals the unusual shape, size and pattern of the dermal denticles that cover basking sharks—thought to be ...

Scientists say the latest discovery has a ‘shorter’ snout, a ‘darker coloration pattern’ and a ‘much longer spine on its ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a half dozen sharks were detected off the coast of Massachusetts over the past week. The eight sightings were ...

A group of jet skiers encountered a large hammerhead shark off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Hammerhead shark sightings are becoming more common in southern New England, possibly due to ideal ...