Even though it's the heart of winter, sharks are still in our frigid waters. One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead ...

One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead on a Cape beach earlier this week, as researchers responded to Wellfleet Harbor and took samples from the massive 6,000-pound basking shark.

Tiger sharks are typically thought to inhabit in the Caribbean seas and Pacific islands, but they are clearly lurking off the ...

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Perceval Wright's interesting article on the basking shark, Selache maxima (NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 313), which I read with much pleasure, and on which I would beg to offer a few observations ...

If you thought it was completely safe to swim in English seas, you may be wrong, and could encounter a seriously ‘dangerous' shark.

There are records of about 30 shark attacks in British waters. The most recent was in 2022, when a woman was bitten on the leg by a blue shark as she snorkelled off the coast of Penzance in Cornwall.