Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks, have a deceivingly ferocious look. They are large-bodied and display a mouthful of sharp teeth that protrude in all directions, even when the ...

WNS Curtis went to South Africa for a fishing trip with pals when he was attacked by a sand tiger shark. He managed to catch the shark and was just taking the hook off its mouth when the beast ...

Curtis was on a fishing "trip of a lifetime" with friends in South Africa when he was attacked by the huge ragged tooth shark, also known as a sand tiger shark. They had just landed the whopper ...

As one of the divers with Nascimento opened a crate of fish to toss to several tiger sharks, one of them snapped at the diver holding a camera. The shark kept biting and eventually partially ...

Research shows that catch-and-release policies aren’t enough to slow the trend In a nutshell Catch-and-release policies help but aren’t enough. While retention bans reduce shark deaths, many species ...

OARAI, Ibaraki Prefecture--A sand tiger shark was born at the Aqua World Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium here, the first successful breeding of the species in Japan. Only four other aquariums ...

are thought to be even faster. Youngest shark to bite a human: A marine biologist, while probing the uterus of a pregnant sand tiger shark, was bitten by an unborn pup. The strongest shark bite ...

Sand tiger sharks eat their siblings in the womb; a phenomenon known as embryonic cannibalism or embryophagy. When the first embryo in each uterus reaches a certain size it consumes all its siblings.