Reaching speeds of 50kph, the mako is the fastest shark in the sea. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Fishers in Albania caught a blue shark with an 18-centimetre fragment of swordfish bill embedded in its skull, in the first ...

So in order to replace that energy they need to eat a lot of food. To ensure a meal, the Mako shark implements certain tactics when hunting. It will often attack and bite off the tail of its prey ...

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 ...

But megalodon’s closest relatives are not great whites, as many scientists once believed. Mako sharks are the best living representation of its extinct cousin, albeit much smaller.

The newly protected species include mako sharks, wedgefishes and guitarfishes. A demand for shark fin soup is one of the driving factors in the depleting numbers of sharks in the ocean.

Once the shark was landed, Grey marveled at its build—streamlined, muscular, with a head like a bullet. “I had never seen its like,” he wrote. “Every line of this mako showed speed and ...

Researchers from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality have been tracking the fate of a female shortfin mako ...

One fatality is reported by the International Shark Attack File. Shortfin mako sharks are known for their exceptional speed, agility, and predatory prowess. They are among the fastest sharks in ...

At CoP18 in August 2019, 18 species of sharks and rays—including shortfin and longfin mako sharks, six species of guitarfish, and 10 species of wedgefish—were added to Appendix II, thus gaining some ...

Many of the sharks had already hatched from their egg cases, ready to be released into the ocean. In some species, the female will produce unfertilised eggs, which are eaten by embryos. This is known ...

A necropsy on Koala, the great white shark that washed up dead in Orleans on Oct. 15 was inconclusive. Here's what we know.