YESTERDAY, uShaka Marine World released four juvenile smooth houndsharks into the sea on the lower south coast. According to the South African Association for Marine Biological Research’s (Saambr) Ann ...
Shrimp trawlers off India accidentally caught a 2-foot-long ocean predator and helped scientists discover a new species, a study said. Google Street View August 2023 ...
The sailback houndshark was first described as a new genus and species in 1973. Sagumai et al. / Journal of Fish Biology, 2025 In July 1970, a fisherman caught an unfamiliar shark in Papua New ...
In 1973, researchers scientifically described a species of shark based on a single specimen: a pregnant female caught a few years earlier by a fisherman near the mouth of the Gogol River in Astrolabe ...
Twenty-nine houndsharks and 16 gulper sharks are up for listing on CITES Appendix II at the wildlife trade regulator’s summit in Uzbekistan this week. Conservationists expect the vote to be close, ...