Louisiana's Gulf Coast is home to a variety of marine life, including sharks. Sharks can be found both inshore and offshore ...

No adults allowed! Lemon sharks learn to live and hunt in Caribbean mangrove forest nurseries and The Americas takes us inside.

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 Carolin ...

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 ...

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

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.

The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in ...

Many sharks, such as great whites, are carnivorous swimmers that can reach high speeds. Despite their ferocious reputation, they largely move in silence. At least, that’s what scientists previously ...

Average swimming speed of a shark: About a yard per second Fastest clocked speed: In sudden, brief bursts, the lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostrus) can attain speeds approaching 20 mph ...

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 ...

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 ...