A Close Encounter With Danger

Of the 700 swimmers who took part in a race Sunday off Cronulla beach in Sydney, Australia, very few realized that they were swimming with sharks. One hammerhead was spotted near the racers, and another smaller...

Sharks decline by 97 percent in Mediterranean

A report released on Wednesday showed that the number of sharks in the Mediterranean has declined by 97 percent over the past 200 years. This affects the entire ecological balance of the underwater world. "The...

Popularity of shark fins puts species on endangered list

Another species is to be added to the endangered list because of the greediness of humans. The population of the scalloped hammerhead shark, found in the waters around China among other world locations, is...

Hammerhead shark has virgin birth

"Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs and give birth without sperm from males, according to a new study of the asexual reproduction of a hammerhead in a U.S. zoo. The joint Northern Ireland-U.S. research,...

If sharks were baby seals, our oceans could be saved

The shark population is diminishing, and has been on a steady decline since 1970, if not before. This is largely due to the popularity of shark meat and fins, which has in recent years spread to North America in a...

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