A two-year study in Palm Beach County, Florida found that reduced water clarity may disrupt hunting and movement patterns and could increase the risk of human-shark encounters.

Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized form of cartilage. These creatures are more than just fast swimmers—they're ...

The Pinecrest family of the 8-year-old boy who was bitten by a shark in the Florida Keys Monday and had to have surgery to save his leg said the fish was a blacktip reef shark that rushed them while ...

An X-ray nanotomography reconstruction of the intermedial cartilage of a blacktip shark. The colors indicate the thickness of the struts, with red representing thicker areas and blue indicating ...