But while wound healing rates among sharks have been studied before, the complete regeneration of the dorsal fin is a success story officially documented only among whale sharks, and now silky sharks.

Shark fin soup is a popular (and pricey) dish in some East Asian societies ... Appendix II trade protections have previously been achieved for a number of shark and ray species, including basking and ...

The male killer whale killed the shark and consumed its liver - all in ... Scientists described how the orca gripped the left pectoral fin of a 2.5m long juvenile shark and "thrust forward ...

It was a whale of a fail ... to adhere to laws banning the trade of whale sharks. This shark tale didn’t make the artificial ...

But the marine park soon found itself the object of international discussion as it was revealed their advertised real whale shark was actually a robot. In fact, as visitors found, the whale shark ...

Whale sharks are large, slow moving and docile creatures that mainly inhabit tropical waters. They are long-lived but scientists have struggled to work out the exact ages of these endangered ...

"Fin whales are the second largest species of whale after blue whales, so it was a formidable target," Milstein said. At first, it seemed like the zig-zag marks were from sharks, Milstein said.

Almost two years ago, Iceland’s Hvalur Inc., headed by Kristjan Loftsson, suspended its fin whale hunt. It continued however to export thousands of tons of mainly fin whale products, principally to ...