A rare shark species thought to be wiped out due to overfishing has been spotted for the first time after over five decades in Papua New Guinea, shedding more light on the region’s rich biodiversity.

Off the western coast of the United Kingdom, conservationists attached some bait to an underwater camera, dropped the contraption to the seabed and waited. When they eventually watched the footage, it ...

How often do we discover a new animal on our planet, only for it to disappear from sight for decades and then suddenly reemerge, reminding us it never went extinct at all? That is the story of the ...

A shark with a striking orange appearance caused by a rare skin condition has been caught off the coast of Costa Rica. The nurse shark, which measured more than six feet long, stood out from the ...

Marine scientists are buzzing with excitement as the complete process of group mating among leopard sharks was filmed in wild for the first time ever. The rare footage was captured at Abor Reef, just ...

"On 31 July 2023, two blue sharks were observed in the Bermeo canyon at 400–600 m depth (8 km offshore). A male erratically followed a female and delivered a courtship bite. The total duration of the ...

An angler in Central America recently caught a rare orange shark while fishing in Costa Rica. Garvin Watson, who lives in Costa Rica, told USA TODAY he reeled in a 6-foot, 6-inch nurse shark with ...

This event marks the first time the leopard shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) has been documented mating in the wild. University of the Sunshine Coast Scientists recently captured the first-ever video of ...