This synthesis was a monumental undertaking. While not the longest ever synthesized, the Greenland shark genome is twice the length of the human one. Interestingly, most of that length is due to ...

An Indonesian fisherman claims he caught a shark with ‘Jaws’-dropping human features — making it a dead-ringer for the famous cartoon character. Abdullah Nuren, 48, told local media that he ...

Aug. 9, 2013— -- Discovery Channel's annual programming pinnacle, Shark Week, is almost fin-nished. See what I did there? For the past 5 days we've been inundated with the raw acrobatics of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Of 88 alleged shark-human interactions that researchers say they investigated last year, 71 bites were confirmed. The report segmented those incidents into unprovoked and provokes bites ...

No shark has ever entered a human home. But we invite ourselves into theirs, again and again. The very least we can do is treat it with respect. Note: This article has been updated to include ...

Sharks off the Gulf of Mexico are increasingly engaging in depredation. Shark conservation efforts in the last two decades have been so successful that researchers are testing ways to mitigate ...