A great short-finned mako shark tried to bite the camera of a shark researcher in North Carolina, and the photo is making a lot of people's hair stand on end on social media. The image ...

“I’m way off what I used to be,” he said. Parasitic copepods cling to the fin of a shortfin mako. They feed on different parts of the shark’s body, eating everything from mucus and blood ...

Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be ...

So in order to replace that energy they need to eat a lot of food. To ensure a meal, the Mako shark implements certain tactics when hunting. It will often attack and bite off the tail of its prey ...

WASHINGTON— The highly imperiled shortfin mako shark was denied federal protection today by NOAA Fisheries, which stated that a listing under the federal Endangered Species Act is “not warranted.” In ...

The man-eating mako shark has not been seen here alive for ... who declared it was a mako. He said: 'It's a short fin mako, without a shadow of a doubt. I would stake my reputation on it.

A woman captured the shocking moment a group of beachgoers dragged a mako shark back to the water by its fins Michael Lee Simpson is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. His work has previously ...