Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. Imagine spotting a shark’s dorsal fin mere ...

The sharks face an agonising death because their fins are cut off, and then they are thrown back into the ocean. They can’t swim properly without their fins and sink to the bottom of the sea ...

The nearly 1,700-pound adult male was tagged last week offshore the Florida/ Georgia border. He’s now swimming off the South Carolina coast.

Researchers have captured rare video of whale shark courtship behavior, revealing intimate details of the largest fish in the sea.

“The male was observed to open its mouth and lunge forward towards the caudal fin of the female,” the authors write in the study. “The male shark increased its swimming speed and lunged ...

Shortly before the new year, he had been swimming west of Bermuda ... The great white shark’s de facto selfie included a dorsal fin that peaked off the Jersey shore, his face and mouth around ...

The researchers describe what happened next: "The male was observed to open its mouth and lunge forward towards the caudal fin of the female. The male shark increased its swimming speed and lunged ...

People also hunt sharks for meat, oil and cartilage — but most hunters are looking for their fins. Shark fin soup, considered a delicacy in some countries, can cost up to $100 per bowl.