The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent ...

To avoid wasting space in the ship hold, deckhands usually throw the rest of the shark back into the water after they cut off the fins, which can sell for one hundred times the cost of the rest of ...

To avoid wasting space in the ship hold, deckhands usually throw the rest of the shark back into the water after they cut off the fins, which can sell for a hundred times the cost of the rest of ...

With the global demand for shark fin being sustained, it is unlikely that the pressure on whale sharks will be relieved in the short to medium term. In spite of the recent protection of whale sharks ...

Marine biologists found bite marks on the sharks’ pectoral fins and bruising of the underlying tissue. Armed with these observations, they reexamined photographs of the sharks that had been ...

Sometimes we all need a little help. And it can come from unlikely places. Carla Mascarenhas is the NSW correspondent covering breaking news, state politics and investigations. She is based in ...

A Caribbean reef shark in its natural habitat. Shark populations around the world are in serious trouble. About 100 million sharks are killed each year in commercial fisheries, and nearly 30 percent ...

This week is the Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week. There’s no better time to take a moment to learn more about these amazing animals. Take our shark personality quiz to find out what kind of ...