By tagging the young mako shark, researchers from Virginia Tech and the College of Natural Resources and Environment gathered ...

Numerous shark species are capable of inflicting mortal ... One fatality is reported by the International Shark Attack File. Shortfin mako sharks are known for their exceptional speed, agility ...

The two species are kind of like lions and hyenas ... There’s probably some number of mako sharks that would be fine to catch and kill. But we don’t know if it’s 100, or 1,000, or 100,000.” ...

Taiwan’s Fisheries Research Institute (FRI), in collaboration with local and Japanese universities, presented its findings on ...

WASHINGTON— The highly imperiled shortfin mako shark was denied federal protection today by NOAA Fisheries, which stated that a listing under the federal Endangered Species Act is “not warranted.” In ...

The newly protected species include mako sharks, wedgefishes and guitarfishes. A demand for shark fin soup is one of the driving factors in the depleting numbers of sharks in the ocean.

At CoP18 in August 2019, 18 species of sharks and rays—including shortfin and longfin mako sharks, six species of guitarfish, and 10 species of wedgefish—were added to Appendix II, thus gaining some ...

Mako shark swimming near the surface out in the open ocean. This image was taken on a baited shark ... [+] dive 50 kms offshore past Western Cape. The tagging was part of the White Shark Chase ...

This is known as oophagy ('egg eating') and occurs in species including the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and bigeye thresher sharks (Alopias superciliosus). Embryos of other sharks survive by ...

Number of species: There are well over 350 known species ... can attain speeds approaching 20 mph; mako sharks (Isurus sp.) are thought to be even faster. Youngest shark to bite a human: A marine ...