By Victoria Schneider Sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean are facing an extinction crisis. Almost half of the ...

‘Living Fossil’ Sharks, Rays and Whale Sharks Get a Lifeline amid Extinction Threat The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation ...

The majority of whale sharks in a global tourism hotspot suffer from human-inflicted scarring, new research has revealed. Between 2010 and 2023, a team of international scientists studied whale sharks ...

On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...

Drone footage revealed tourists and boats are harassing endangered whale sharks at a popular site off Mexico's coast. Rule violations include boats getting too close and swimmers touching the sharks, ...

The first direct evidence of orcas killing white sharks in South Africa has been captured by both a helicopter and drone pilot, and a new open-access paper published today in The Ecological Society of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) The world’s oceans are home ...

A nightmare for whale conservationists has been a dream for a shiver of hungry sharks. A North Atlantic right whale that was suffering from fishing gear injuries has been found dead off the coast of ...

A mysterious species of deepwater shark that has been increasingly threatened with extinction for years was thrown a lifeline Friday after the global body that regulates the international endangered ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) The world’s oceans are home ...