On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

Seasonal changes, water temperature, and even time of day can drive sharks ... contributing to both shark conservation and human safety. Great white shark breaching. Image by Alex Steyn via Unsplash.

Others propose they help in thermoregulation by controlling water flow patterns near the skin ... via Wikimedia Commons. The spectacular breaching behavior observed in certain shark species, most ...

Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized ...

If you’ve gone swimming in South Carolina beaches, you’ve probably swam with sharks. Here’s what you should know, according to a marine biologist and a shark researcher.

There are, within that surf zone, sharks actively swimming in and out of people all day long,” said South Carolina Department ...

Ocean Ramsey, a trained shark diver, spoke with PEOPLE exclusively about her unimaginably-close encounters with the apex predators and why she does it by choice ...

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh plans to swim 62 miles around Martha's Vineyard to highlight shark conservation on the 50th ...

Until recently, the scientific community believed that sharks were silent. Like many other marine life, they communicate ...

An enormous basking shark was filmed skulking around the waters just off the coast of Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol. The ...

Officials, who are still on the hunt for the predator, linked the increased shark sightings to growing algae in the water — but some locals believe swimming in the coastal area isn’t worth the ...