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A shark flag at Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts, alerts visitors to the presence of the animals. Shark sightings are an almost daily occurrence on Cape Cod in summer months.

In Cape Cod's 'Sharky' Waters, Humans Learn to Coexist with an Apex Predator

New technology and changing habits may keep beachgoers safe as the local great white population grows.

Sarah Sax July 12, 2021

Shark attacks are very rare, making the discovery of an ancient one a particularly unusual occurrence.

How Scientific Detective Work Pinned Down the Oldest Known Shark Attack

At Okayama’s Tsukumo shell mound, a 3,000-year-old skeleton bears the scars of history’s oldest known shark attack.

Hannah Seo July 9, 2021

Living Sharks Museum

Westerly, Rhode Island

Living Sharks Museum

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

Jonathan Green affixes a fin-mounted double satellite tag on the dorsal fin of an adult female whale shark.

The Ocean’s Largest Shark Has a Little Something to Say

An online video raised a strange question: Do whale sharks make sounds? And would it matter if they did?

Claudia Geib March 24, 2020

So you want to tag a great white, do you?

The Carolinas' Mysterious Great White Shark Cluster Is Not Mysterious, Not a Cluster

They're just doing what sharks do.

Sabrina Imbler February 14, 2020

The gator's red-tipped bones indicate that bone worms have come to feast.

The Curious Case of the Deep-Sea Bone Worms and the Vanishing Underwater Gator

Scientists dropped three alligators to the bottom of the ocean. One of them was never seen again.

Sabrina Imbler January 29, 2020

This ancient shark may have been slow-moving, but it was still pretty pointy.

Found: A Sluggish Ancestor of the Great White Shark, in Kansas

A relic of North America’s shallow sea.

Isaac Schultz November 25, 2019

A sand tiger shark swims with the fishes, not far from one of the North Carolina shipwrecks.

Sand Tiger Sharks Are Drawn to North Carolina's Shipwrecks

They return to the same sunken vessels over and over again, and researchers are trying to figure out why.

Jonathan Carey April 23, 2019

The scene of the crime.

How It Came to Be That a Shark Dined on a Pterosaur

It's fun to imagine it leapt out of the water like a torpedo—but unlikely.

Matthew Taub December 20, 2018

The museum explores the history and production of the unique Icelandic dish.

Bjarnarhöfn, Iceland

Bjarnarhöfn Shark Museum

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

Sharkskin Wasabi Grater

Traditional sushi chefs produce optimal condiments with this ancient tool.

A bonnethead shark in a New Orleans aquarium

The Shark That Thrives on a Flexitarian Diet

For the bonnethead shark, fish can be friends, not food.

Natasha Frost January 8, 2018

A whale shark shows off its distinct spot pattern as a scuba diver swims nearby.

To Identify Whale Sharks, Scientists Looked to the Stars

A groundbreaking marine database was only made possible by a telescope algorithm.

Cara Giaimo December 1, 2017

Reef sharks have smooth, hydrodynamic bodies, in contrast to more portly, deeper-dwelling sharks.

The Lazy Zeppelins and Breakneck Boeings of the Shark World

Aircraft make surprisingly good analogues for the variety of sharks out there.

Natasha Frost November 28, 2017

The fermented meat of a Greenland shark.

Hákarl

Iceland's fermented, dried shark smells like urine and can taste like strong cheese.

An alligator capturing a nurse shark in Florida.

We Now Have Evidence That Alligators Like Chomping on Sharks

Gators rarely pass up a snack.

Kelsey Kennedy October 16, 2017

Fixing a Failed Whale Burial in Australia

After a beached humpback was buried in the sand, the sharks started coming.

Cara Giaimo September 25, 2017

<em>Edestus gigantus</em>.

The Delicate Art of Illustrating Ancient Sharks

Artist Aaron John Gregory balances scientific accuracy and creative flair.

Kevin Litman-Navarro September 6, 2017