By Napat Wesshasartar MAITON ISLAND, Thailand, Jan 26 (Reuters) - After a brief countdown by conservationists, a young Indo-Pacific leopard shark glided into the blue waters off Maiton Island in ...

Thailand has embarked on a pioneering project to rewild Indo-Pacific leopard sharks, once abundant but now endangered due to overfishing and habitat loss. With the cooperation of conservationists, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leopard sharks remain endangered due to environmental degradation and overfishing. Also known as a zebra shark, the leopard shark ...

A researcher has recorded three sharks in a “threesome”, or ménage à trois, marking a scientific first. Hugo Lassauce, a marine biologist and a researcher from the University of the Sunshine Coast in ...

Australian researcher Dr. Hugo Lassauce caught a rare moment between three endangered leopard sharks. The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) marine biologist documented footage of two male ...

If there were a beauty contest for sharks, I would cast my vote — for the most beautiful shark in the sea — to the leopard shark. No hesitation. This critter has eye-appealing shapes on its back and ...

When you think of sharks, what words come to mind? Maybe scary or vicious, right? Well, one a leopard shark that lives at an aquarium on the island of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean is ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

You've seen sharks on video, but have you ever seen a shark on sonar? Marine biologists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center caught this video of a leopard shark in Richardson Bay in June ...

A University of the Sunshine Coast researcher has caught on camera and documented for the first time a rare – and rather risqué – shark mating sequence in the wild. In a surprise discovery, UniSC’s Dr ...