The 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 weeks ...

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 ...

The whale sharks are a good omen for the fishers because they know when the whale sharks come, that means that lots of small ...

A hammerhead shark less than one meter long swims frantically in a plastic container aboard a boat in the Sanquianga National Natural Park, off Colombia’s Pacific coast. It is a delicate female ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service today proposed to list two tope shark populations — in Southern Africa and the Southwest Atlantic — as threatened under the Endangered Species Act ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They hesitated at first, but the fishermen jumped into the water after realizing how calm the tiger sharks were, said Chelsea ...

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 ...