Weird makos filmed off the California coast in a new Shark Week show raise questions about what these sharks actually are.

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Vicenza's Mako Sharks swim team ended their regular season with a final meet in the European Forces Swim League Southern Division Championships in Sicily.

In 2013, fishermen caught a shortfin mako shark off the coast of California. It was a record-breaking catch, as the mako shark turned out to be the heaviest one ever documented. The enormous ...

The team's young Black swimmers are not only gliding through the water — they're also pushing past the racial barriers that have long defined the sport.

The team used pressure to manipulate the skin and scales of dead Mako sharks. That's because live Mako specimens, just like Great White sharks, tend to have a short lifespan in captivity.

Mako sharks can swim as fast as 70 to 80mph, ... The team described their work at the American Physical Society's 2019 March meeting this week in Boston.

Mako sharks are fast, predatory sharks that can be found swimming in tropical and temperate oceans. These speedsters of the seas can reach 31 miles per hour, with bursts of up to 46 miles per hour.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 4, 2019 -- Shortfin mako sharks have been called the "cheetahs of the ocean," capable of swimming at estimated speeds of 70 or 80 miles per hour. To investigate just how ...