The blackchin guitarfish has a name that is only marginally more intriguing than its physiology. At first glance, it looks ...

The world’s oceans are home to an exquisite variety of sharks and rays, from the largest fishes in the sea – the majestic whale shark and manta rays – to the luminescent but rarely seen deep-water ...

Shark meat remains widely available at seafood restaurants, hawker stalls and supermarkets – and some hawkers say they cannot always tell what species they are buying.

Many sharks and rays are known to breach, leaping fully or partly out of the water. In a recent study, colleagues and I reviewed research on breaching and ranked the most commonly hypothesized ...

Some species of sharks and rays could disappear from our seas altogether after a sharp drop in their numbers due to overfishing in the past 50 years.A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature ...

Shark and ray populations around the world have declined a "staggering" 70% over the past 50 years — and scientists say humans are to blame. If nothing changes, overfishing could soon wipe them out ...

A group of international conservation organizations have launched a new strategy to combat the decline of sharks and closely related rays, while warning that the rays are even more threatened and less ...

An agreement to stop targeted fishing of sharks and rays in Banc d’Arguin National Park, Mauritania, brings hope to threatened marine species in West Africa. Nouakchott, Mauritania – A landmark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching a whale shark swim at the Georgia Aquarium. Zac Wolf/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The world’s oceans are home to an ...