Gliding through the shallow reefs of northern Australia and New Guinea is a creature that looks like it stepped out of evolutionary fan fiction. The epaulette shark, a three-foot-long species ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Chondrichthyan fishes—a group that includes rays, skates, chimaeras, and sharks—are thought to have energy intensive reproduction cycles due in no ...

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SAN DIEGO — For the first time ever, researchers have captured video of three endangered zebra sharks mating in the wild in the South Pacific, providing scientists worldwide with unprecedented ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: But a new study, published in the journal Biology Open, makes an even more puzzling discovery about this fascinating shallow-sea creature. Energy is ...