A whale shark can easily be spotted from the air, cruising just below the surface of the crystal-clear waters of the Indian ...

Watch as a colony of panicking sea lions reacts to Wednesday’s massive earthquake in eastern Russia. Antsiferov Island, ...

The Caribbean reef shark lives in Florida waters and is protected from commercial harvest in U.S. waters. While sharks living on coral reefs have decreased, the number of rays has filled the ...

More extinction, but reef sharks in particular, with a global average decline of 63% in five main shark species living on coral reefs. Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

The initial study utilized baited underwater video stations, amassing over 20,000 hours of footage meticulously analyzed for shark sightings. These BRUVs revealed concerning trends, such as ...

More than half of known species of coral reef sharks and rays are threatened with extinction, according to new research that underscores the urgent need for improved regional fisheries and marine ...

The number of rays is growing in coral reef ecosystems around the world as overfishing obliterates shark populations. The findings come from a global study using thousands of underwater cameras to ...

By almost every measure, the coral in Tela Bay should be dead. Yet despite decades of pollution, industrial degradation, and heat waves that have decimated other reefs in the region, this reef on ...

Coral secretes calcium carbonate, creating a sort-of concrete around itself that becomes the structure for the reef. But that process can take "hundreds and thousands of years," Brosnan said.

A leopard shark at the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Thursday, July 13, 2023. The Shark Reef welcomed four new shark species—the pyjama shark, leopard shark ...