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Blue sharks (Prionace glauca) are one of the most widely distributed shark species, found in temperate and tropical waters across the globe. A dramatic encounter recently unfolded off the coast of ...

Those on a local whale watch were treated to an epic feast on Wednesday when they had a front-row seat to several sharks scavenging a dead shark. A shiver of blue sharks was spotted chomping on a dead ...

The first white shark of the season was spotted off of Nantucket on May 11, but they aren't the only sharks that live in Massachusetts water. Ryan Knotek, an associate research scientist with the New ...

Folks venturing out to the Vallejo waterfront Saturday might have thought they stumbled into an aerial whale-watching tour, with a blue whale, a life-sized whale shark and none other than Baby Shark ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of fish on the planet. They are among the largest animals to have ever lived. Only blue whales, sperm whales, and humpback whales (all mammals) are larger. The ...

Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark size spectrum to look at the world’s largest fish. The whale shark is ...

I’m on a boat bobbing up in down in the blue expanse of the Caribbean Sea. A sucking sound off the starboard side, like water draining in a bathtub catches my attention. The speckled blob of a whale ...

In the battle of killer whale vs. shark, one of these two apex predators has a decided advantage, and this holds true even if you narrow it to the fiercest of shark the species, the great white.