Sharks are already some of the ocean’s strangest predators - but sometimes genetics makes them even stranger. From a bright ...

Two groups of nurse sharks living just 80 km apart are growing at wildly different speeds. And while the faster growth might look like good news, it could actually be a warning sign about how human ...

A 23-year-old woman who was bitten by a small nurse shark Sunday in Boca Raton, Florida, and hospitalized with the shark still attached to her arm has been released. Crews arrived at Boca Raton Beach ...

WASHINGTON — Some species of shark return to the same breeding grounds for decades at a time, and live longer than previously thought, scientists studying the animals off Florida say. Scientists with ...

After Australian scientists collected data from 300 female eastern gray nurse sharks off the coast of New South Wales, they calculated updated population numbers for the critically endangered shark.

Anglers off Costa Rica caught a 6-foot-long nurse shark with an orange-yellow hue in a first-of-its-kind sighting, a study said and photos show. Photo from Garvin Watson, shared by Marioxis ...

Anglers on a sport fishing trip off Costa Rica reeled in their lines and were stunned when a bright orange shark surfaced near the boat. The 6-foot-long predator turned out to be a first-of-its-kind ...