Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks ... feeding at night and generally staying close to the bottom. Their staple is small fish, but they will eat crustaceans and squid as well.

This happens swiftly for small sharks, but larger species are ... For the study, Wyffel and colleagues examined mating wounds in sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus) — a critically endangered ...

Sand Tiger Shark The sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus ... It primarily preys on small bony fishlike like herring and sardines, and invertebrates such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopus.

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 ...

They’ve been making a splash since 2000. The Long Island Aquarium is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with many of its original marine life still flipping and swimming in Riverhead.

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 ...

A huge 14ft (4.2m) smalltooth sand tiger shark has washed up in County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. Scientists believe this is the first official record of this rare species in Irish waters.