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Baby sharks are eating the birds that live in your backyard Sharks eat birds. And not just gulls and other seafaring avians, either. They consistently eat common backyard birds like sparrows, doves, and woodpeckers.

Why scientists are racing to uncover the Greenland shark's secrets Researchers are racing to learn as much as possible about the once elusive Greenland shark. Read on.

The world’s fastest shark is in trouble Mako sharks are being caught and dying at rates 10-fold higher than we realized, a new study indicates. These fast, tasty sharks are in danger of being overfished.

Why some sharks are like blimps, and others are like airplanes When you think of a zeppelin, you probably don’t picture a large, cartilaginous fish with rows of pointed teeth. But perhaps you should.

Yes, the frilled shark is really freaky. But there are other 'living fossils' that are just as weird.Someone pulled something freaky looking out of the bottom of the ocean, and now Google News is flooded with headlines about “living fossils.”

This tiny shark eats grass and it’s doing just fine Bonnethead sharks are the only omnivorous sharks, rivaling sea turtles in their ability to digest seagrass.

The U.S. protects alpha predators, but its most famous shark hunter isn't out of business yet Hunters like Mark the Shark kill less and tag more as we move to protect big sea predators. The big ones get away more often now that we value sharks’ role in marine ecosystems.

This map shows where commercial fishing boats and sharks butt heads Oceana, an ocean advocacy group, released an interactive map this week which tracked 45 ocean-faring sharks, and showed how often they overlap with human fishing activity in the Atlantic Ocean.

Cuba's pristine reefs are ideal for spotting great hammerhead sharks Scientists are studying Cuba’s pristine reefs as an exploratory trip to see if they could find any great hammerheads and document the reef’s condition. They want to go back to tag individual animals and collaborate on research with Cuban scientists.

The first underwater film was lost for decades—until now In his memoir, Williamson remembered it like this: “I grasped the monster's fin, felt my hand close upon it. With a twist, I was under the livid white belly at the spot I was trying to reach. With all my remaining strength I struck. A quivering thrill raced up my arm as I felt the blade bury itself to the hilt in the flesh…Then a blur, confusion—chaos.”

Scientists followed a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence—here's what they saw “We’re monitoring where she is right now, and it just happens to be in the middle of a hurricane,” Kelly Martin says.