In 2011, while carrying out a survey of fishes off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, marine biologists spotted a tasselled wobbegong eating a brown-banded bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum ...

Silvertip Shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus) in san Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo. (Photo by: ... More Luis Javier Sandoval/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) With global reef ...

The number of rays is growing in coral reef ecosystems around the world as overfishing obliterates shark populations. The findings come from a global study using thousands of underwater cameras to ...

It was placed on the IUCN Red List of Species in 2009 with Near Threatened status. The grey reef shark is on the list of protected species in French Polynesia. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty ...

which help them blend into the reef. They also have coral-like lobes of flesh that form a beard-like fringe around the head and chin, which breaks up the wobbegong's outline to add an extra layer ...