Scientists tracked the movements of a large pregnant porbeagle shark for months. Then, its tag floated to the ocean surface, ...

Scientists tracking the life of a shortfin mako shark made an astonishing discovery. The researchers aimed to better identify ...

Now, the researchers said they may have identified two suspects — a great white shark and shortfin mako shark—in this ...

WASHINGTON— The highly imperiled shortfin mako shark was denied federal protection today by NOAA Fisheries, which stated that a listing under the federal Endangered Species Act is “not warranted.” In ...

So in order to replace that energy they need to eat a lot of food. To ensure a meal, the Mako shark implements certain tactics when hunting. It will often attack and bite off the tail of its prey ...

This is a photograph of shortfin mako shark scales which each measure about 0.2 millimeters in length. The front row of scales has been manually bristled to their maximum angle of about 50 degrees ...

Now, the researchers said they may have identified two suspects — a great white shark and shortfin mako shark—in this scientific murder mystery, changing the way researchers think about how ...