Porbeagle sharks aren’t known to have predators, but a new study says it recorded the first instance of the species being ...

The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

There are 24 species of sturgeon worldwide, the most famous of which is the beluga sturgeon of the Caspian Sea, prized for its ... tails like those of a shark. They also have notochords, lack ...

Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - all bordering the Caspian Sea - have agreed in principle on how to divide it up. Their leaders signed the Convention on the Legal Status of ...

BAKU (Reuters) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea ...

Typically, sharks are finned alive—brought aboard fishing vessels to have their fins sliced off, then thrown back into the sea, where they suffocate, bleed to death, or are eaten by other animals.

A Hull man hoping to become the first person to complete an unbroken walk around the world is planning a 186-mile (300km) swim across the Caspian Sea. Karl Bushby set off in 1998 and is more than ...

Big animals are exciting. The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and ...

A wildlife group says businesses in China are slaughtering and processing hundreds of sharks yearly ... placed on export of wild caviar from Caspian sea; established farming facilities in US ...

BAKU (Reuters) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea, and said that ...