An analysis of bites inflicted by sharks in French Polynesia suggests that, in 5% of cases, they are a defensive reaction ...

In a nutshell A new study finds that about 5% of shark bites in French Polynesia occurred after humans provoked the animals, ...

Gruber: I wrote a paper with Neil Schneiderman in 1975 demonstrating that lemon sharks learn faster and retain a conditioned response longer than a cat or rabbit. Sharks and their large-brained ...

These sharks may come closer to shore, entering brackish estuaries and rivers in order to mate and birth pups, according to ...

What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously thought, closer in build to a sleek lemon shark than a chunky great white, according to the study published ...

Researchers in New Zealand found that a small species of shark makes noises with their teeth when touched by humans — and now researchers want to look further into how and why sharks make this noise.

Lemon sharks are viviparous, in that they give birth to live young, so when a pup is born it is already a fully formed miniature shark. The mother will risk stranding herself in shallow waters to ...

The clicking behaviour has been described in the new study as the first documented case of a shark deliberately making sound ...

Locals often refer to the relatively small sharks, which grow up to five feet long, as "lemon fish" (not to be confused with much more formidable lemon sharks) — or simply "rigs." Lead author ...

He has even dressed up as a killer whale, complete with towering black dorsal fin, to gauge the reaction of lemon sharks (one tried to bite him). An associate research behaviorist at the Bodega ...

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) made a cool discovery while viewing their underwater ocean camera footage – ...

The lemon shark scours the sandy sea bed for food, but how does it get a good grip on hidden prey? Steve heads to the Bahamas in the Caribbean to dive with these feisty sharks. Steve Backshall ...