The national zoo in Pretoria has added over 200 new marine fishes to its aquarium, with the aim of educating visitors on ...

"Typically, white sharks migrate between mid-May and late June from their overwintering grounds off the southeastern U.S. to ...

A new analysis suggests that a total of 322 bites worldwide occurred when the large fish felt intimidated by humans ...

New research suggests social media stunts like touching sharks are leading to more defensive bites—and hurting conservation ...

A new study released in Frontiers in Conservation found that sharks might be biting humans more because we're putting ...

Scientists say self-defence bites occur as a response to human threat, like spear fishing or any attempts to grab the shark.

occurring immediately after humans behaved aggressively or intrusively toward the shark. Most incidents involved smaller species like grey reef sharks, lemon sharks, blacktip reef sharks ...

One particularly telling case from 2016 involved two Polynesian spearfishermen who encountered several gray reef sharks while fishing. When one shark approached, a fisherman shot it with a spear with ...

Knowing your coastal sharks is important, too. For some species, such as the territorial-minded gray reef shark, a human merely intruding into their space is likely to trigger their survival ...

Article continues below "Some species of coastal shark, such as the gray reef shark, are both particularly territorial and bold enough to come to contact with humans," explained Dr Clua ...

“Some species of coastal shark, such as the gray reef shark, are both particularly territorial and bold enough to come [into] contact with humans,” Clua said in a press release. The study authors also ...

A man taking a selfie underwater with a shark in the background. Picture: Alamy Common species recorded included grey reef sharks, lemon sharks, blacktip reef sharks and the widely known nurse sharks.