The genes of great white sharks defy scientific explanation. Instead, there appear to be three distinct groups, all descended from a common population that lived 10,000 years ago before the last ice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maintaining perfect vision for 400 years is a biological achievement for the Greenland shark. Operating at 9,500 feet creates high ...

A genetic mystery in white sharks (formerly great white sharks) has stumped scientists for over 20 years. Between three major populations of the sharks, differences in mitochondrial DNA have raised ...

When someone gets bitten by a shark — as happened to one man on Sunday in Del Mar — it's standard policy to put up signs such as those now standing in the sand, warning visitors to stay out of the ...

A shark that bit a swimmer in Del Mar last month, leaving the man hospitalized with significant wounds, was a juvenile white shark, likely around 9 feet long and 6 to 8 years old. That determination ...

FIU scientists have discovered two major problems after analyzing small shark fins from Hong Kong markets — small coastal species are much more common in the international fin trade than previously ...

In recent years, the global environment has been grappling with the devastating consequences of anthropogenic stressors, resulting in the dramatic depletion of numerous species and habitats across the ...

The longest living vertebrate on Earth may have a thing or two to teach us about maintaining our eyesight into old age. New research has shown that the Greenland shark does not experience impaired or ...

Maintaining perfect vision for 400 years is a biological achievement for the Greenland shark. Operating at 9,500 feet creates high-pressure conditions that typically trigger retinal DNA fragmentation.