For years, Hawaiʻi surfers and lifeguards have talked about “Sharktober,” a stretch of fall weeks when encounters with sharks ...

Beachgoers in Australia are on high alert following four shark incidents in New South Wales in 48 hours.

This video recounts a close encounter with a shark that escalated faster than expected. Footage and timing reveal how subtle ...

Tiger sharks are typically solitary wanderers, and it wasn’t clear to scientists how they came together to reproduce. But as HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, groundbreaking research from the ...

News outlets around the world are reporting on a series of shark attacks along Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) coastline.

Midwinter marks the annual return of humpback whales to Hawaiʻi, swimming down from Alaska to breed in the warmer waters. Tiger sharks start showing up in greater numbers soon thereafter from across ...

Drone observations show a previously unknown behavior in white sharks in which they rotate their first dorsal fin toward an object, possibly to investigate it, researchers said. Carlos Guana Journal ...

For years, researchers have tagged sharks in the world's oceans to learn where they go, how they migrate and where they feed.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Márquez is a marine scientist and science communicator The idea that a shark’s dorsal fin might be more than just a stabilizer may ...

A 12-foot, 1,000-pound shark is now traveling unusually close to Alabama shores. Female great white shark Ernst has traveled ...