New assessments by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show 316 chondrichthyan species – sharks, rays and skates, and chimaeras – are now threatened with extinction. “These ...
Mark Erdmann Researchers in Papua New Guinea have made a rare discovery in the unusual group known as walking sharks, but the ...
Residents of southeastern Papua New Guinea have long known about an unusual fish that can “walk” across the reef flats at low tide with most of its body out of the water. They call it kadedekedewa, ...
Ireland's waters continue to provide an important seasonal refuge for the endangered basking shark, according to a new study.
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.
Over 200 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras are found in Philippine waters, but more than half of these species are facing extinction due to habitat degradation, bycatch, and illegal trade. Worse, ...
With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no mistaking the animal: It’s a hammerhead shark. Across the globe, there are more than nine hammerhead species, many of which are ...
Italian naturalist, Camilo Ranzani's original 1840 illustration of Carcharhinus porosus, known as the smalltail shark, taken from the Center For Biological Diversity's suit filed in Feb. 2025 against ...
A shark that can follow you onto land? Luckily, the "walking shark" poses no threat to humans at all. Now, scientists have discovered a new species of this type.Residents of eastern Papua New Guinea ...
Natural England's Species Recovery Programme will focus on the blue shark, porbeagle and tope.
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