The Shark and Ray Touch Pool at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, in November 2024. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowa lawmakers are considering a proposal to ...

A bill that would make it a crime to let people pet sharks has been tabled in the Iowa Legislature. It’s a response to a shark bite that happened in Iowa last year. A small shark bit an employee at a ...

Iowa lawmakers have sunk a bill that would prohibit Iowans from petting sharks — but it's possible it could resurface. Rep. Ray "Bubba" Sorensen, R-Greenfield, introduced the bill in response to a ...

A shark was euthanized after it clamped its jaws down on an Iowa aquarium employee and refused to let go. The staff member at Blue Zoo interactive aquarium in West Des Moines was bit by an 18-inch ...

Iowa's shark population just grew by two — and you don't even need a boat to see them. Snoopy and Pluto, Blank Park Zoo's newest bamboo sharks, have been added to the big reef aquarium in the ...

Iowa’s largest zoo is adding sharks to its Big Reef Aquarium for the first time. Two bamboo sharks, named Snoopy and Pluto, were introduced this week at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines. Zoo spokesman ...