Carpet shark species include: Some people think of the hammerhead shark as a single species, but its actually a family (Sphyrnidae). Hammerhead sharks all have those distinctively shaped heads ...

Research started more than two decades ago by Demian Chapman, now the director of Mote Marine Laboratory’s Center for Shark ...

Klimley: Yes. The U.S. Navy, in fact, once considered the hammerhead the third most dangerous species after the great white and the tiger shark. (There are nine species of hammerheads, but the ...

It has been 12 years since Randall Arauz, began his fight to protect marine species in Costa Rica, mainly hammerhead sharks.Randall Arauz, ...

Hammerhead sharks can hold their breath to ... "Instead of having to compete with all the other warm coastal shallow shark species, they can extend their reach into the deep sea so that way ...

In June, four populations of scalloped hammerhead sharks were listed as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act. And effective September 14, 2014, international trade in oceanic whitetip sharks ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition today urging the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect the great hammerhead shark under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s ...