So in order to replace that energy they need to eat a lot of food. To ensure a meal, the Mako shark implements certain tactics when hunting. It will often attack and bite off the tail of its prey ...

Scientists tracked the movements of a large pregnant porbeagle shark for months. Then, its tag floated to the ocean surface, suggesting a larger shark had eaten it.

A paper published Tuesday details the first-of-its-kind predation of a porbeagle shark anywhere in the world. Porbeagle ...

Parasitic copepods cling to the fin of a shortfin mako. They feed on different parts of the shark’s body, eating everything from mucus and blood to upper layers of skin. Donilon accepts the loss ...

Researchers narrowed the suspects to a shortfin mako ... a white shark, a predator that often feasts on small sharks, whales, rays, seals and sea lions. While large sharks often eat small sharks ...

Researchers from the US have been perplexed over the mystery of a dead shark, only to discover that it might have been eaten ...

There are over 500 species of shark living in waters around the world ... This is known as oophagy ('egg eating') and occurs in species including the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and bigeye ...

WASHINGTON— The highly imperiled shortfin mako shark was denied federal protection today by NOAA Fisheries, which stated that a listing under the federal Endangered Species Act is “not warranted.” In ...

Over one quarter of all known shark species are ... as well as several species of hammerhead sharks and 37 species of guitarfish. At CoP18 in August 2019, 18 species of sharks and rays—including ...

Now, the researchers said they may have identified two suspects — a great white shark and shortfin mako shark—in this scientific murder mystery, changing the way researchers think about how ...