We can't quite say sharks can be friends, but new evidence is showing us that sharks form social bonds with others and can work together — to a degree. Gray reef sharks regularly meet up together in ...

Predators in perpetual motion, sleepless in our seas. If that’s your image of sharks, you are not alone. And for good reason: we once believes that sharks must keep swimming to breathe. Since then, ...

Predators in perpetual motion. Sleepless in our seas. If that’s your image of sharks, you’re not alone. And for good reason: sharks must swim to breathe (or so we were told). The science of how sharks ...

The sharks that slay together stay together. While the killer fish can rarely be called friendly, a new study has revealed that gray reef sharks, a type known to attack humans, prefer to paint the ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

This eight--foot-long, 300-pound shark is quite rare in the main Hawaiian Islands, but there are a pair of them that live in Hanalei Bay. They are more common around the islands of Ni‘ihau and ...

Did you know that when a gray reef shark wants to rest — it goes surfing? This type of shark species can’t stop swimming; it’s how they breathe. If they stop, they’ll sink. (the animals are ...

There are more than 500 species of sharks in the world’s oceans, from the 7-inch dwarf lantern shark to whale sharks that can grow to over 35 feet long. They’re found from polar waters to the equator, ...

While diving off the coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, wildlife photographer Stephane Robert came across something unusual. Swimming into view was a large gray reef shark, unlike any she had ...

Grey reef sharks hang out with the same “friends” in the same spot for years, a four-year study at the remote Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean has revealed. “We don’t think of sharks as social ...