A single research expedition in 2022 is helping scientists chart even more remarkable marine species across the ocean. Researchers have discovered two new deep-sea species—a lanternshark and a porcela ...

In an unprecedented move, CITES has listed dozens of shark and ray species for protection, in hopes their populations can ...

With their bright green eyes and slender bodies, gulper sharks are odd-looking, prehistoric creatures that have been around for millions of years. Found worldwide in waters from 200 to 1,500 meters ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and ...

The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline.

The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered ...

Governments have adopted greater protections for over 70 species of sharks and rays at an international wildlife trade ...

Essential to marine ecosystems, sharks maintain the balance of the food web as apex predators, preventing any single species ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has enacted sweeping new trade protections for sharks and ...

Yet another thresher shark washed up dead on a Cape beach over the weekend — the second shark that was recently found stranded on a bay beach. Local shark researchers responded on Saturday to the ...