Its shark sanctuary will shelter more than 135 Western Pacific species of sharks and rays considered endangered or vulnerable, or for which there is not enough data to determine...

Leisure attractions at the mall include The Dubai Aquarium' &' Underwater Zoo featuring over 33,000 aquatic animals including sharks and rays, and with the world's largest...

Researchers hope to use the fossils to better understand where placoderms fit into the evolutionary history of jawed vertebrates and determine whether they are more closely linked to sharks and rays ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers...

'' Most sharks and rays are exceptionally vulnerable to overfishing because of their tendency to grow slowly, mature late, and produce few young,'' she added. Her colleague...

The tail-first birthing process was probably similar to that of some species of sharks and rays living today, says the study, published Thursday in the British journal Nature....

The discovery also provides the earliest evidence of vertebrate sexual reproduction, where males, using clasping organs similar to modern sharks and rays, internally fertilized...

The first study to assess the worldwide status of 21 species of pelagic sharks and rays -- those living and hunting in open seas -- found that more than half are rapidly being...

Over millennia the indigenous animals living on the sea floor have adapted to a world without powerful predators such as crabs, shell-cracking fish, sharks and rays. As a...

Predatory crabs, sharks and rays have begun extending their domain towards the Antarctic continental shelf in the Southern Ocean because of increasing sea temperatures, The...

The Mediterranean is the most dangerous place on Earth for sharks and rays, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) said on Friday, in a report that said 42 percent of these...