But ongoing efforts to identify shark “hotspots” across ... hammerhead - the largest of all nine species of hammerhead – on its endangered list. In September 2007, the IUCN announced that ...

Klimley: Yes. The U.S. Navy, in fact, once considered the hammerhead the third most dangerous species after the great white and the tiger shark. (There are nine species of hammerheads, but the ...

Research started more than two decades ago by Demian Chapman, now the director of Mote Marine Laboratory’s Center for Shark ...

In June, four populations of scalloped hammerhead sharks were listed as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act. And effective September 14, 2014, international trade in oceanic whitetip sharks ...

Hammerhead sharks ... it's likely what gave the sharks their remarkable evolutionary advantage. "Instead of having to compete with all the other warm coastal shallow shark species, they can ...

The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

I was once at the surface playing low-frequency sounds over a speaker to attract sharks. A hammerhead shot up from ... They're not a species that chases down prey such as white sharks do with ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition today urging the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect the great hammerhead shark under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s ...