A unique feature of sand tiger shark reproduction is that the largest embryo in the shark’s uterus will kill and eat eggs or smaller siblings before it is born. However, after birth, sand tiger ...

A woman injured this week in waters off Jones Beach State Park was likely bitten by a shark, authorities said, in one of the first reported encounters of the Long Island beach season.

Rather, humans are the sand tiger shark’s top predator. It is federally protected in U.S. Atlantic waters and is listed as critically endangered in some parts of its global range. At the University of ...

New York State Parks officials say the woman was waist-deep in the surf at the Central Mall beachfront on Wednesday afternoon ...

Sand tiger sharks can be found in the New York Aquarium and in New York’s coastal waters, where they are depleted but protected. WCS scientists are studying their movements, habitat use, and health.

Dodd said that the male shark was about 38 inches long and appeared to have been dead for a day or two. "Sand tiger sharks are easily recognizable by their numerous protruding teeth and large ...

Two views of a sand tiger shark embryo in September 1970 that show damage by an intrauterine attack by one of its siblings. NOAA/Reproduction and Embryonic Development of The Sand Tiger Shark, ...

As adults, sand tiger sharks are known for being relatively non-aggressive. But as babies, these animals engage in a cannibalistic war with dozens of siblings in which only one survives. It's all ...