A new study published in Science has revealed that overfishing is not only pushing sharks towards extinction, but reef sharks in particular, with a global average decline of 63% in five main shark ...

A Grey reef shark swins in an aquarium at the National Center of the Sea in Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France - Copyright AFP/File PHILIPPE HUGUEN A Grey reef shark ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A new study published Friday explains overfishing is driving reef sharks toward extinction. Scientists of Global FinPrint, a five-year international study, found the five main shark ...

Scientists exploring the deep waters off the African archipelago of Comoros captured rare footage of sharks thriving as far ...

Sharks of all sizes are vital to coral reef ecosystems, both as predators and prey. Shark populations have rapidly declined worldwide due to fishing operations, legal and illegal. The real impact of ...

Five of the most common shark species living in coral reefs have declined 60% to 73%, according to a massive global study by Colin Simpfendorfer and colleagues. Some individual shark species were not ...

Blacktip reef sharks are one of five common species of reef sharks that are disappearing. Colin Simpfendorfer Reef sharks are disappearing from oceans around the world—and they’re at a much higher ...

The population of some of the ocean's biggest predators looks to be dwindling. Sharks have been found to be "functionally extinct" in nearly one in five reefs surveyed as part of a new study done by ...

A massive global study of the world's reefs has found sharks are 'functionally extinct' on nearly one in five of the reefs surveyed. A massive global study of the world's reefs has found sharks are ...

When a shark bite happens, many people jump to the conclusion that shark populations are exploding. However, according to new research published in the journal Communications Biology, coastal shark ...

A new study surveyed 371 coral reefs in 58 countries, and found sharks were virtually absent from 20% of the surveyed reefs, indicating that they were functionally extinct from these ecosystems. The ...