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People eating at a restaurant on Block Island over Memorial Day weekend were given dinner and a show when a shark appeared in ...
The Gulf of Mexico is a large basin with around 617,800 square miles of water. The area supports diverse marine life, ...
Most likely due to their larger size, tiger sharks were the more dominant species during this group scavenge. All of the tiger sharks–except one smaller female–and the two largest oceanic whitetips ...
Many sharks, particularly those that live in the open oceans, are hunters rather than scavengers. Despite this, a small portion of their diet comes from scavenging, a behavior they may engage in when ...
Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the world, but much about them remains unknown. Like many types of sharks, they give birth to live young, though no one has witnessed a baby whale shark being born ...
Thirty-three shark and twenty stingray species have been recorded swimming in seas around Greece in the last 90 years.
Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history. Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck ...
The massive Megalodon had a staggering 100,000 kilocalories-per-day nutritional demand—which it didn't always fill as ...
A study by Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, UMass Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries estimated ...
A new study led by shark ecologist and FIU alumna Naomi F. Farabaugh found the type of species and number of sharks and rays ...