How Do US Navy Sailors Protect Aircraft Carriers From Sharks? Picture this: You’re a sailor on a massive aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from land. After weeks ...

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature categorizes the tope shark as critically endangered. The species is highly threatened with extinction because of commercial overfishing for liver oil ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Shiffman, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) Sharks are some of the ...

As sharks go, LeeBeth is something like a long-haul trucker with gills and giant teeth. Swimmers at the beach might not be excited to see the 14-foot white shark, but scientists following LeeBeth’s ...

AVON, N.C. -- Not many kids can say their dad punched a shark for them, but 8-year-old Jack Thornton can. His dad, 47-year-old Patrick Thornton, fought off a shark while they were swimming at a North ...

When my late husband, Peter Benchley, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary, I had one wish: to go cage diving with great white sharks. After decades of ocean expeditions together, I’d often been the ...

They hesitated at first, but the fishermen jumped into the water after realizing how calm the tiger sharks were, said Chelsea Black. Black, a postdoctoral researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, spent two ...

UNC researcher trains Indonesian fishers to tag sharks through Project Hiu Tag data reveals tiger sharks cluster in 40 km² area for months at a time Black urges government to protect shark hotspot ...