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AVON, N.C. -- Not many kids can say their dad punched a shark for them, but 8-year-old Jack Thornton can. His dad, 47-year-old Patrick Thornton, fought off a shark while they were swimming at a North ...

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh said “we must stop killing sharks” as he completed an “exhausting” swim in the stormy waters where Jaws was filmed. The conservationist and UN patron of the oceans has ...

A decision that has marine conservationists worldwide cheering: At the 20th CITES conference, member states agreed on stricter protection measures for more than 70 species of sharks and rays. What ...

When my late husband, Peter Benchley, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary, I had one wish: to go cage diving with great white sharks. After decades of ocean expeditions together, I’d often been the ...

Sharks may elicit less sympathy than elephants or rhinos, but experts say the feared predators are under increasing pressure from unmanaged commercial fishing and desperately in need of further ...

They hesitated at first, but the fishermen jumped into the water after realizing how calm the tiger sharks were, said Chelsea Black. Black, a postdoctoral researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill, spent two ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. UNC researcher trains Indonesian fishers to tag sharks through Project Hiu Tag data reveals tiger sharks cluster in 40 km² area for ...

UNC researcher trains Indonesian fishers to tag sharks through Project Hiu Tag data reveals tiger sharks cluster in 40 km² area for months at a time Black urges government to protect shark hotspot ...