These Sharks Once Ruled the Seas. Now They’re Nearly Gone. These Sharks Once Ruled the Seas. Now They’re Nearly Gone. How Tales of Shark Attacks Shaped a U.S. Warship’s Legacy How Tales of ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... know very little about Rhincodon typus—the whale shark. The behemoths are indeed sharks: They breathe through ...

Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks, have a deceivingly ferocious look. They are large-bodied and display a mouthful of sharp teeth that protrude in all directions, even when the ...

Between eight and 14 feet but can reach up to 23 feet Using this method, scientists discovered Greenland sharks have a life expectancy of at least 272 years and could reach 392, give or take about ...

We now know how orcas hunt the world’s largest fish We now know how orcas hunt the world’s largest fish This photographer aims to turn shark fear into fascination This photographer aims to ...

The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

Laurent Ballesta and his team built a semicircular rig of 32 synchronized cameras to capture this “bullet time” video sequence of sharks descending on a grouper at Fakarava Atoll. This visual ...

A version of this story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... that they live in one of the world’s largest shark sanctuaries. In 2012 the Cook Islands became ...

We just take, take all the time …” Society Grant Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund this project. Glenn Hodges wrote about oceanic whitetip sharks in the August 2016 issue.