These top predators eat smaller animals, balancing the populations of fish and other marine life. For example, sharks protect ...

Tiger sharks, named for their distinctive color pattern, are among the largest of the sharks and are recorded up to 18 feet ...

A 20-year-old woman suffered minor injuries when she was apparently bitten by a sand tiger shark while standing in waist-deep ...

One of the world's largest gatherings of tiger sharks has recently started to appear yearly on the Florida Gulf Coast.

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of encountering a tiger shark up close, and my recent dive with the magnificent Queen Nikki was an experience I’ll never forget. As I descended into the azure ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. This summer, we’ll look at three shark species with notorious reputations: tiger sharks, great whites and oceanic ...

Similarly, female tiger sharks don't breed until they're about 3.3 metres in length. Just killing the really big ones means taking out the breeders that are keeping the population alive.

A tiger shark swims in the Bahamas. Over the past several decades, the predators ventured farther north in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Neil Hammerschlag The waters off the northeastern coast ...

You’ve been warned, Jaws. Nassau County’s top elected official took a dip at Nickerson beach Monday to prove the waters were ...

A close encounter with a tiger shark happened off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. Ocean Ramsey was about to dive into the water when she spotted an approaching tiger shark. Watch the video!