Basking Shark season tends to be May or October, and there are a few hotspots around the British Isles where you'll most ...

There are two species of seahorse in the British Isles – the short-snouted seahorse and the spiny seahorse. Both species are ...

Scientists have recorded an 'exceptionally rare' wild orca behavior known as 'tongue-nibbling' for the first time. The social ...

And that’s exactly what happened, at least some of the time. When the young sharks were exposed to the magnetic field of the place they were caught, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, they swam in ...

As the largest predatory fish on Earth, great white sharks are already impressive, armed with up to 300 serrated teeth and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Now, new research adds more intrigue to the ...

San Jose Sharks defense prospect Sam Dickinson prepares to play for the London Knights in a Memorial Cup semifinal game against the Moncton Wildcats on May 30 in Rimouski, Quebec. London won the ...

How sharks went from ‘garbage eaters’ to ‘man-eaters’ A great white shark swims through a school of Tommy roughs in South Australia, where a few shark encounters have occurred in recent years.

Our morbid fascination with white sharks’ ability to kill us drove the success of “Jaws” and, eventually, decades of “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV marathon that always features ...

Giant basking sharks take part in speed-dating-like behavior when they form courtship swimming circles at the end of summer. The serial killer image has probably made it harder to convince people ...

When “Jaws” premiered to an invigorated public in June 1975, most of the research on sharks focused on preventing shark attacks, Skomal said. “We knew it was big, it could swim fast and we ...

Indeed, Benchley became an advocate for shark conservation who enjoyed working with scientists (I was invited onto his radio show to discuss my research satellite-tracking basking sharks).