The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Although sharks aren’t the mindless man-eaters they are sometimes made out to be, experts know that staying safe involves ...

As the Fourth of July holiday approaches and families are planning beach time, some people on Long Island have lingering ...

Though there are many shark species in North Carolina, bites are rare, Cahoon said, noting that most shark bites occur in ...

A woman injured this week in waters off Jones Beach State Park was likely bitten by a shark, authorities said, in one of the ...

Sharks don’t exactly have the best reputation. Decades of fear-driven stories and films have made sure of that. But if you actually study them– what they do, how they survive– it becomes clear they’re ...

Want to find some blue sea glass? How about a fossil, or a cool rock? These are the best beaches in RI to start looking.

Fresh bite marks on white sharks have been seen in waters off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, indicating mating is in progress, experts say. National Park Service photo Sharks have a reputation for ...

To researchers, the animals are hardly predatory villains; most are juveniles figuring out how to hunt. Encounters such as ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

Fossil discoveries along Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs reveal that ancestors of the great white shark, dating back 15 million years, consumed marine mammals like dolphins and whales despite lacking the ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...