Over a year after a dead 15-foot shark was found with mysterious bite wounds and stripped of its internal organs, DNA ...

The scientists who led the study believe the sharks do so by clamping their gills shut to avoid cold water coming into their bodies, a never-before-seen survival strategy. That means the sharks ...

An orca by the name of Sophia killed a great white shark by smashing its side with her nose, then drowning it. Mother Nature ...

And they have five, six, or seven gill slits per side, not one per side as in bony fish. Some sharks lay egg cases with developing embryos inside. These sharks are called oviparous (born from an egg).

That is the number one goal, and create distance if you can, but as a last resort, you go for the gills, you go for the eyes. You literally want to shove your thumbs into the shark's eyes.

Both sharks and rays have gills. Most have five but a few species of shark have six or even seven. On a shark the gills are found on both sides of the head, whereas in rays they are found on the ...

The sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea are home to over 700 varieties of fish and almost 10 per cent of the world's marine species. Its coastline is one of the most densely populated ...

The bait was a tuna gill, which can be very attractive to sharks, and the bait was placed too far away from the range of the Sharkbanz device for an ankle or a wrist, Garrison says. The device is ...

The behemoths are indeed sharks: They breathe through gills, like fish. They are cold-blooded, like fish. The "whale" part of the name refers to size and how the animals eat. They are one of only ...

(Ram ventilators like hammerheads and great whites must swim to pass water over their gills.) So the answer is no, emphatically. There are even some sharks with spiracles, holes on the top of ...

basking sharks eat tiny organisms called zooplankton. Swimming with their three-foot-wide mouths agape allows them to take in water and filter out plankton using gill rakers, special organs that ...