Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

A new study published in Ecology and Evolution has evaluated the extent to which recently identified Important Shark and Ray ...

Australia has closed dozens of beaches and urged people to stay out of the ocean after a fourth shark attack was reported ...

New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs ...

The end of Australia’s long summer school holidays usually draws crowds to the beach but a spate of shark attacks in the country’s most populous state has triggered warnings to stay out of the water.

A new study on blue sharks shows that their movement patterns in the open ocean are closely linked to internal energy stores ...

Recent shark attacks may be linked less to shark behaviour – and more to the pollutants, pesticides and parasites humans send ...

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of ...

The predator bit the boy, believed to be about 13 years old, during the late afternoon off Shark Beach, police said.