Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, researchers discovered that they aren't enough to stabilize shark populations.

Sharks are often observed with hooks, scars or other evidence of encounters with fisherman. This Caribbean reef shark was spotted in the Bahamas with a wire leader hanging from her mouth. It has been ...

A Raleigh man had an unbelievably close encounter with a shark last week in the Cayman Islands – and it was all caught on video. Jason Dimitri says he was collecting lionfish about 65 feet ...

The shark attack happened Feb. 7, off a beach in the Turks and Caicos Islands, 600 miles southeast of Miami, officials said. Facebook video screengrab A tourist visiting the Caribbean had to be ...

The Bahamas is made up of over 700 islands of breathtaking beauty. Caribbean reef shark in The Bahamas - Mark McClean The archipelago spreads over 100,000 square miles of ocean and is a hotspot ...

By Marco Lopez Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this atoll home and is a matriarch of the thriving population of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) ...