Many marine animals around the world are vulnerable to commercial fisheries, and one of them is the silky sharks or ...

Every summer, the quiet waters of Willapa Bay in Southwest Washington become a shark superhighway. By JES BURNS OPB Catching ...

Vice President of Growth & Engagement at CBS News and Stations Jennifer Earl is the Vice President of Growth & Engagement at CBS News and Stations. Jennifer has previously written for outlets ...

There are more than 500 species of sharks in the world’s oceans, from the 7-inch dwarf lantern shark to whale sharks that can grow to over 35 feet long. They’re found from polar waters to the equator, ...

After multiple dusky sharks killed a swimmer off Israel’s coast this year, scientists investigated what might have triggered the attack in hopes of preventing similar incidents A dusky shark swims in ...

Despite the popular belief that all sharks need to keep swimming or they'll die, many species of shark can get along just fine staying still. Gray reef sharks are the most recent species now ...

More than 100 million years ago, scientists say, warming seas and reduced oxygen may have sent some sharks higher into the water column, where they evolved to be fierce and hungry. By Jeanne Timmons ...

Sensitive cells and an enlarged olfactory bulb allow sharks to detect a small amount of blood in the water, but not in a supernatural sense. In an age where many species of shark have become ...

Humans and juvenile great white sharks swim in the same waters nearly every single day along some beaches in southern California, a new study has found. Yet bites remain rare. “I think what we've ...