Across nine regions, IUCN located 816 areas where at least one threatened species of sharks and rays hosts key activities.

Even more striking were the changes that occur as sharks grow. At around 3m in body length, white sharks undergo a major dental transformation. Juvenile teeth are slimmer and often feature small side ...

A shark scientist explains why plastic pollution does harm sharks through entanglement and microplastic ingestion.

Hundreds of plastic wastes floats mercilessly around the Indian Ocean beach waters along Lamu Island seafront in Lamu County on Saturday,011th May,2019.Locals who dispose such wastes to the water may ...

A 12-foot, 1,000-pound great white shark named Ernst has been tracked off the coast of Southwest Florida. The shark was tagged by the research group OCEARCH, which studies keystone ocean species like ...

Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have found that there are marine bacteria living in all the world’s oceans that are able to consume and digest ...

Nicole Charky-Chami is a senior editor based in Los Angeles, writing and producing breaking news. She teaches journalism courses for UCLA Extension and previously taught at Loyola Marymount University ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida is wrestling with two major pieces of legislation that could reshape how the state manages its shark populations, even as fishing captains and conservationists square ...

Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic end up in oceans across the world. Unable to distinguish that trash from natural food sources, many marine animals end up ingesting it. While ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...