Picture this: You’re a sailor on a massive aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from land.

AVON, N.C. -- Not many kids can say their dad punched a shark for them, but 8-year-old Jack Thornton can. His dad, 47-year-old Patrick Thornton, fought off a shark while they were swimming at a North ...

They hesitated at first, but the fishermen jumped into the water after realizing how calm the tiger sharks were, said Chelsea Black. Black, a postdoctoral researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, spent two ...

When my late husband, Peter Benchley, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary, I had one wish: to go cage diving with great white sharks. After decades of ocean expeditions together, I’d often been the ...

Australia is well-known for its headlines involving dangerous animals. However, in recent months, Sydney has been in the news ...

For decades, sharks have been cast as the ultimate solitary predators — cold, instinct-driven “killing machines” that roam the ocean alone. Species like the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) were long ...

A decision that has marine conservationists worldwide cheering: At the 20th CITES conference, member states agreed on stricter protection measures for more than 70 species of sharks and rays. What ...

The limited range of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) offers reduced protection to vulnerable species such as the highly mobile silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis). Threatened by commercial fisheries ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. UNC researcher trains Indonesian fishers to tag sharks through Project Hiu Tag data reveals tiger sharks cluster in 40 km² area for ...

UNC researcher trains Indonesian fishers to tag sharks through Project Hiu Tag data reveals tiger sharks cluster in 40 km² area for months at a time Black urges government to protect shark hotspot ...