Shark attacks worldwide increased in 2025 with 65 unprovoked bites recorded globally, while fatalities doubled above the ...

Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

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

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long before the famous Megalodon ever evolved. By pushing the origin of giant ...

The fear of sharks dates back to earliest days of seafaring, when sailors' fears of mythical sea creatures seemed to be realistic danger of heading out to sea. But it was not until the 20th century, ...