Learn more about the Dudgeon walking shark (Hemiscyllium dudgeonae), what makes it so unique, and why the speices is already threatened.

When someone says "shark," the first images that come to mind for many people are rather typical – great whites, bull sharks and tiger sharks. But there are some species lurking beneath the sea that ...

Sharks keep our oceans and coastal waters healthy. As top predators, they eat weak and sick prey and thus keep fish ...

Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the known species count to 10.

Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on ...

New research reveals the unusual shape, size and pattern of the dermal denticles that cover basking sharks—thought to be ...

The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a move conservationists hailed as a "historical win." Signatories to the ...

Meanwhile, just a couple of weekends ago, a swimmer was savaged off Jones Beach by a suspected shark — which decided to snack ...

Here's when Shark Week 2026 begins on Discovery, the airing schedule and the counties in Florida with the most and least ...

The garbage-eating sharks that will devour almost anything are back. The first tiger shark sighting of the season happened off Mashpee’s Popponesset this week, as an estimated 10-foot apex predator ...