CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Luring great white sharks with a smelly mixture of fish and oil in South Africa's False Bay has triggered a wave of anger, with surfers and swimmers calling for a ban on the ...

Between 2000 and 2008, an estimated one out of every 100 sharks caught around the globe was killed off the coast of Senegal. While estimates of the annual number of sharks caught worldwide vary widely ...

The waters shared by bathers and great whites off Plettenberg Bay, one of South Africa’s most popular beach resorts, are going unmonitored during the peak shark season when the world’s biggest ...

Most shark species have only five gills, but one primitive order has six, and some even seven. This anatomical difference is one of many that set them apart from others in their genus. The literal ...

A new study shows that inadequate regulatory controls and increased targeting of bottom-dwelling sharks in South African could make certain species vulnerable to over-harvesting. END NOTES: • In 2007, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-lost great white shark tag has revealed one shark's stunning journey from South Africa to Southeast Asia, giving new ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The discovery of a satellite tag from a subadult female white shark in Indonesia marks the first recorded connectivity of white shark movement ...

Discover the 25 sharks responsible for the most human attacks. Learn about the 'Big Three' and other species, their behaviors ...

Most people carry a mental map that keeps sharks safely offshore, out in the salt water where the ocean is deep and the coastline is a boundary. The bull shark ignores that map. It is one of the few ...