If current extinction trends continue, global shark populations will lose much of their variety, thereby threatening ecosystems where specialized species serve vital roles, researchers have found.
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Shark extinction risk jumped from a third to 37.5% in two years
Sharks, rays, and chimaeras are disappearing faster than scientists predicted, and the fishing routes intersecting their most ...
New assessments by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show 316 chondrichthyan species – sharks, rays and skates, and chimaeras – are now threatened with extinction. “These ...
Off the coast of Mexico, National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory spots a lifeless creature dangling from a fishing line. With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no ...
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity reached a legal agreement with NOAA Fisheries today requiring the agency to decide by Aug. 12 whether the smalltail shark warrants protection under the ...
NOAA Fisheries has denied a petition seeking to list smalltail sharks under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), concluding that ...
Italian naturalist, Camilo Ranzani's original 1840 illustration of Carcharhinus porosus, known as the smalltail shark, taken from the Center For Biological Diversity's suit filed in Feb. 2025 against ...
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