If current extinction trends continue, global shark populations will lose much of their variety, thereby threatening ecosystems where specialized species serve vital roles, researchers have found.

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability. This has been the assumption of an old debate on whether species' age plays ...

For more than one hundred million years, giant sharks have flicked their massive tails throughout Earth’s oceans. Some of ...

New assessments by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show 316 chondrichthyan species – sharks, rays and skates, and chimaeras – are now threatened with extinction. “These ...

With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no mistaking the animal: It’s a hammerhead shark. Across the globe, there are more than nine hammerhead species, many of which are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indo-Pacific leopard sharks are considered endangered by the IUCN. Shark populations have plummeted more than 70 percent worldwide ...

They can stay out of the water briefly while crossing exposed reefs.

For the first time, global governments have agreed to widespread international trade bans and restrictions for sharks and rays being driven to extinction. Last week, more than 70 shark and ray species ...

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 ...

Italian naturalist, Camilo Ranzani's original 1840 illustration of Carcharhinus porosus, known as the smalltail shark, taken from the Center For Biological Diversity's suit filed in Feb. 2025 against ...

The critically endangered sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) appears to have found a refuge off the northern coast of the ...