Australia has just mapped 158 Important Shark and Ray Areas across its waters, identifying the habitats most critical to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indo-Pacific leopard sharks are considered endangered by the IUCN. Shark populations have plummeted more than 70 percent worldwide ...

Despite more than a decade of international efforts to curb the trade of threatened shark species, new research led by FIU marine biologist Diego Cardeñosa and Demian Chapman, director of the Shark ...

For the first time, global governments have agreed to widespread international trade bans and restrictions for sharks and rays being driven to extinction. Last week, more than 70 shark and ray species ...

Learn more about the ancient life that used to inhabit Mammoth Cave, and how the cave conditions were just right to help preserve some of these remains.

Scientists warn that proposed shark nets for protecting swimmers near a new €100 million Club Med resort in South Africa ...