to get around laws that require a shark’s fins be “naturally attached” to its body when it is brought onto land to be exported for sale. At present, the practice is known to occur only in Costa Rica, ...

"A large metallic grey dorsal fin signalled a big shark, a short-fin mako," Constantine wrote in the piece published March 11. "But wait, what was that orange patch on its head? A buoy? An injury?

The practice involves "cutting off a shark's fin, often while the shark is still alive, and dumping the animal back into the sea to die slowly," according to Humane Society International.

Once long ago, before Shark Fin Cove existed, a megalodon called these waters home. The beast spent all night and day hunting along the shoreline and waiting for an unsuspecting land-meal to ...

Many shark populations have faced steep declines due to years of exploitation for their fins, cartilage, meat, and liver oil. There is a robust global market for shark fins in particular to meet the ...

When the signals start coming from land, they know the sharks ... Parasitic copepods cling to the fin of a shortfin mako. They feed on different parts of the shark’s body, eating everything ...

A thresher shark conservation effort in eastern Indonesia focusing on alternative sources of income has reduced up to 90% of ...

This baby land shark may be one of the most unusual and ... Hide and Seek: Dive into the scene with only his dorsal fin exposed, granting himself a Movement Boost and the wall-crawl ability.