Florida International University (FIU) scientists have finally identified a new species of hammerhead shark years after first collecting samples, but the shark's official discovery comes as its ...

Although the researchers didn’t find a difference in sensitivity to the electric fields between a hammerhead ... that the ...

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A fisherman was casting his line into shallow water off the Texas coast when a huge hammerhead shark emerged from below, TikTok video shows. Jason Schilling shared the video May 24, capturing the ...

By the Early Jurassic Period (195 million years ago) the oldest-known group of modern sharks, the Hexanchiformes or sixgill sharks, had evolved. They were followed during the rest of the Jurassic by ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of hammerhead shark that’s been hiding in plain sight among the bonnetheads. These sharks were already notable for their shovel-like shape, but this new ...

VENGEFUL locals have killed a hammerhead and bludgeoned another apex predator with a club as part of a war on sharks. Vigilante fishermen have been going out to sea to slay any sharks they come ...

Hammerhead sharks can hold their breath to survive almost freezing-cold waters during deep dives, a study has found. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Thursday ...

While they don’t eat humans as many believe, they do have quite the appetite. Though, if they don’t eat humans as everyone ...

“You can find them in the bay, along the beach,” Chapman said. “They make a living swimming along the shallows and eating swimming ... and protect small hammerhead shark species as they ...

Research started more than two decades ago by Demian Chapman, now the director of Mote Marine Laboratory’s Center for Shark Research, led to the discovery of a new species of hammerhead shark ...

The measures apply to the requiem shark family which includes tiger sharks, as well as to six small hammerhead sharks. The sharks are being pushed to the edge of extinction by the trade in fins to ...