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 ...

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 ...

This is a photograph of shortfin mako shark scales which each measure about 0.2 millimeters in length. The front row of scales has been manually bristled to their maximum angle of about 50 degrees ...

Scientists have sequenced to chromosome level the genomes of great hammerhead and shortfin mako sharks, showing that their populations have declined over 250,000 years.

One fatality is reported by the International Shark Attack File. Shortfin mako sharks are known for their exceptional speed, agility, and predatory prowess. They are among the fastest sharks in ...

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 ...

These majestic sharks gather in their hundreds at huge volcanic seamounts that project out of the seabed. They come here to be cleaned and to find a mate, circling the seamount in a sort of ...

The great hammerhead shark’s scientific name is Sphyrna mokarran, a mixture of Greek and Arabic meaning “great hammer.” A German naturalist explorer Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell first ...

While they don’t eat humans as many believe ... Sharks who are much faster, like the Shortfin Mako Shark, tend to snack on ...

Other sharks are small, like the smoothhound shark, which grow to be about 15 inches long and munch on bony fish. Sharks start predation before they are even close to having consciousness. Shark ...

in Cranston, the Atlantic Shark Institute announced Tuesday morning. The plates feature an image of the endangered shortfin mako shark, and $20 from each plate sale supports the institute's work.