Latest Hammerhead shark Stories

Sharks are disappearing from the world's oceans. The numbers of many large shark species have declined by more than half due to increased demand for shark fins and meat, recreational shark fisheries, as well as tuna and swordfish fisheries, where millions of sharks are taken as bycatch each year.Now, the global status of large sharks has been assessed by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, scientific-based information source on the threat...

NORFOLK, Va. -- Veterinarian Bob George sliced open the dead shark and saw the outline of a fish.No surprise there, since sharks digest their food slowly.Then George realized he wasn't looking at the stomach of the blacktip reef shark, but at her uterus. In it was a perfectly formed, 10-inch-long shark pup that was almost ready to be born.George was dumbfounded.He had been examining the shark, Tidbit, to figure out why she reacted badly to routine sedatives during a physical and died, hours...

PARIS (AFP) -- Marine biologists say they have obtained the first proof that sharks can spot changes in magnetic fields, boosting evidence that the fish have an internal compass to guide them as well as a phenomenal sense of smell. A Hawaii University team trained six sandbar sharks and one scalloped hammerhead shark to associate food with an artificial magnetic field, they report in a publication of Britain's Royal Society. The field, derived from a copper coil surrounding the sharks'...