Shortfin makos are the fastest sharks in the sea, but they're failing to outpace the scale of overfishing that is driving them to extinction. Global demand for their meat and lucrative fins has placed ...

The research team tagged the mako shark during a research expedition for ... We need to do more tagging, but this is a great starting point." The research, carried out as part of the White Shark ...

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

New research reveals that despite decades of overfishing, shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic still have relatively high ...

The megalodon, great white shark and mako shark are not the only warm-blooded marine animals. Others include aquatic mammals such as whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, walruses and manatees.

After a long fight in which the mako “leapt prodigiously and made incredible runs,” the shark bit through the ... show that Zane Grey saw; and I get great color for this story.

Wrong turn on the turnpike? It appears to have been the case for a mako shark in Florida recently. The 10-12 foot sea creature was discovered in brackish North Lake in Hollywood, Fla., earlier ...

This is a photograph of shortfin mako shark scales which each measure about 0.2 millimeters in length. The front row of scales has been manually bristled to their maximum angle of about 50 degrees ...

WASHINGTON— Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity sent a notice today of their intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect the shortfin mako ...

A 9-foot OCEARCH-tagged great white shark that visited the Southwest Florida coast repeatedly in 2024 is back.

The situation for shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean ... Such is the case for the critically endangered great hammerhead shark, another species being fished to the edge of existence ...