Shortfin makos are the fastest sharks in the sea, but they're failing to outpace the scale of overfishing that is driving ...

Salmon hats on killer whales have been well documented. Even a parasitic species is creating zombie spiders. But in a first, a rare "sharktopus" sighting was filmed as an octopus hitched a ride on the ...

Shark researchers at Australia's University of Auckland were surprised recently to see an orange octopus perched atop a mako shark. They sent up their drone and captured a delightful if mystifying ...

In 2013, fishers off Southern California reeled in an enormous, 11-foot-long (3.3 meters) mako shark. At over 1,300 pounds (590 kilograms), the animal — dubbed "The Beast" — was one of the heaviest ...

Like the intrepid fishermen in “Jaws,” these anglers in Whitianga, New Zealand are definitely going to need a bigger boat. No doubt attracted by their bait, a giant mako leaped into the air and landed ...

NARRAGANSETT — After University of Rhode Island scientist Bradley Wetherbee tagged a shortfin mako shark in the Atlantic Ocean waters off Maryland on June 25, he tracked its movements north past the ...

A large mako tried to bite a shark researcher’s camera off North Carolina, and the resulting photo is giving people the willies on social media. The image, taken during a recent OCEARCH expedition, ...

Last June the Bahia Marina in Ocean City, MD, hosted their 25th Annual Mid-Atlantic Mako Mania Shark Tournament. A regular participant in many of those Mako Mania tourneys has been Kennett Square’s ...

In an unprecedented event, researchers have documented the first known instance of a shark being eaten by a larger predator in the open ocean. The incident involved a female porbeagle shark southwest ...