A thrilling encounter off the coast of Freeport, Bahamas, was captured on video when a tiger shark nearly swallowed a diver's camera during a feeding session. The incident occurred on February 9, when ...

The scientists who led the study believe the sharks do so by clamping their gills shut to avoid cold water coming into their bodies, a never-before-seen survival strategy. That means the sharks ...

After several bites, the tiger shark captured the diver’s camera in its mouth. The device kept recording as the fish attempted to swallow the camera getting a close look at its gills and razor ...

That is the number one goal, and create distance if you can, but as a last resort, you go for the gills, you go for the eyes. You literally want to shove your thumbs into the shark's eyes.

And they have five, six, or seven gill slits per side, not one per side as in bony fish. Some sharks lay egg cases with developing embryos inside. These sharks are called oviparous (born from an egg).

(Ram ventilators like hammerheads and great whites must swim to pass water over their gills.) So the answer is no, emphatically. There are even some sharks with spiracles, holes on the top of ...

Both sharks and rays have gills. Most have five but a few species of shark have six or even seven. On a shark the gills are found on both sides of the head, whereas in rays they are found on the ...

basking sharks eat tiny organisms called zooplankton. Swimming with their three-foot-wide mouths agape allows them to take in water and filter out plankton using gill rakers, special organs that ...

We know that sharks all over the world, even at the Cove in Seaside, like to take a bite out of the occasional human or surfboard. But cameras? Apparently so. While feeding the sharks in February, ...

The frilled shark lives deep near the bottom of the ocean, avoiding the attention of the media. It gets its name from the six sets of frilly gills that sit like a collar behind its head.