Sharks: Facts about the ocean's apex predators | Live Science
Jul 4, 2022 · Sharks are a diverse group of often-misunderstood fish. Learn more about these predators, including their evolution, habitat, diet and behavior.
Sharks: News, features and articles - Live Science
Jan 7, 2025 · Bite into the meatiest coverage of great white sharks, megalodons and more with the latest shark news, features and articles from Live Science.
Biggest sharks in the world - Live Science
Jul 5, 2022 · Basking sharks are often regarded as slow, gentle giants but they are capable of rocketing out of the water at speeds of 11 mph (18 km/h) and jumping 4 feet (1.2 m) in the air to breach, Live ...
Secret of why Greenland sharks live so incredibly long finally …
Jul 16, 2024 · To measure the sharks' metabolism in the new study, the researchers took tissue samples from the muscle of 23 Greenland sharks that were caught on the south coast of Disko Island in central Greenland.
Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and …
Aug 7, 2024 · Like salmon, female sharks always return to their birth site to drop their pups, Noble said. This means that the sharks' mitochondrial DNA, which they inherit only from their mothers, "is a bit ...
Watch orca tear open whale shark and feast on its liver in …
Jul 28, 2023 · An orca (Orcinus orca) was filmed attacking an adult whale shark (Rhincodon typus) off the coast of Mexico.(Image credit: James Moskito/Ocean Safaris) A orca tears open a whale shark and eats its ...
Great whites are dining on other sharks instead of seals, …
Jun 30, 2023 · Researchers found sharks make up a bigger proportion of great white (Carcharodon carcharias) diets than seals do.(Image credit: Philip Thurston/Getty Images) To find out, Williams and Enrico ...
Orca gang develops brutal hunting strategy to take on the world's ...
Nov 29, 2024 · Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the sea, weighing up to 40 tons (36 metric tons) and usually growing up to 40 feet (12 meters) long, according to the National Ocean Service ...
8-Foot-Long Bull Shark Pulled from Potomac River - Live Science
Sep 4, 2015 · Bull sharks come through the Chesapeake in late summer for the same reason most human tourists do: The water is warm, and the food is good. Bull sharks live in tropical and subtropical waters ...
Scientists examine bloody mating wounds to reveal details of …
Jan 7, 2025 · The team then applied this healing scale to pictures of sand tiger sharks from the database Spot A Shark U.S.A., which encourages citizen scientists to submit images of C. taurus snapped along the ...