Australia has just mapped 158 Important Shark and Ray Areas across its waters, identifying the habitats most critical to the ...

Manta rays are among the species that will have upgraded protections Underwater image of critically endangered whitetip sharks at the North Seymour Island dive site in the Galapagos archipelago, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blackchin guitarfish is a type of shovelnose ray that looks like half shark and half ray. They mainly live in marine and ...

A team of international researchers led by the University of Vienna have investigated the development of shark and ray biodiversity over the past 100 million years. Their surprising results show a ...

Every year, thousands of shark and ray fins are smuggled across international borders, hidden in plain sight in shipping containers or mislabeled among other cargo. For authorities tasked with ...

An Australian diver on TikTok shared stunning footage of an extremely rare, critically endangered species on the platform. The video, taken by Gold Coast Freediver (@goldcoastfreediver), shows a shark ...

The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. The habitat of thirty species of sharks, ...

A team of international researchers led by the University of Vienna investigated the development of shark and ray biodiversity over the past 100 million years. Their surprising results show a ...

For the first time, global governments have agreed to widespread international trade bans and restrictions for sharks and rays being driven to extinction. Last week, more than 70 shark and ray species ...

The blackchin guitarfish has a name that is only marginally more intriguing than its physiology. At first glance, it looks like a child’s drawing of a half-shark, half-ray creature. Its numbers are ...

The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a move conservationists hailed as a "historical win." Signatories to the ...