Sharks are a diverse group of mostly predatory fish. They do not have bones; their skeletons are made of a tissue called cartilage. Sharks traveled the seas long before the dinosaurs roamed Earth ...

Conservationists are determined to protect the magnificent rays of the Pacific—whether that’s tracking them with acoustic ...

There was a bit of a lull in the annual conflict between sharks and humans. 2024 was an "exceptionally quiet year" for shark bites around the world, with far fewer than usual, according to a new ...

The Greenland shark holds the title as the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth, with some individuals potentially reaching 500 ...

Dr Kevin R Stone is a pioneer of advanced orthopaedic surgical and rehabilitation techniques to repair, regenerate and replace damaged cartilage and ligaments. The author was trained at Harvard ...

it is a piece of shark cartilage. It's a softer material and it tends to degrade. Most sharks, we don't have a lot of information on. These Mississippian sharks, most of them are known just from ...

Shark attacks — particularly deadly ones — dropped substantially last year around the world, a new report shows. The latest iteration of the International Shark Attack File, a database run by ...

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