DANIEL ARAUZ: I have never seen a nurse shark with that color. FADEL: Daniel Arauz co-authored a study on the shark, published in the journal Marine Biodiversity. Arauz says the 6-foot long shark was ...

Even in an era when most discoveries are made through satellite data or deep-sea cameras, finding something entirely new in the day-to-day still feels electric. Such a moment arrived off Costa Rica’s ...

The movie "Jaws" may not have been as scary if you could have seen the shark coming. If it were a bright color, the characters could have been more prepared, but when you think of a shark, you think ...

Fishermen off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast recently made a rare catch that has stunned both the public and the scientific community. They caught a nurse shark displaying a bright orange body and ...

Anglers on a fishing trip off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast caught a nurse shark unlike any seen before: bright orange skin and stark white eyes. This adult shark, about two meters long, marks the ...

A shimmering yellow-orange shark hauled from the Caribbean waters off Central America has forced scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about shark coloration. The rare animal, nicknamed a ...