The blue shark is one of those unappreciated masters of the ocean. We all know the great white shark, but what about the great blue shark? For real, another name for this bad boy is: great blue shark. How come nobody makes movies about a blue shark terrorizing a small beach town? Well, because a…

Your plane crashed and now you’re in the middle of the ocean. Somehow you survived the crash; you know in your mind the priority is food, shelter, drinkable water etc; at the same time, as the adrenaline fades, you feel the primal fear in your mind of the unknown in this least explored part of…

Think of some sharks: tiger, hammerhead, bull, . . . nurse? Yes, the nurse shark does in fact exist; it has no formal education and lacks the qualifications to give you medication or a diagnosis. What it wants in formal education, it makes up for in street smarts. This shark, slow and small in comparison…

A shark with a scythe; a 1000 pound sharp-toothed creature with a weapon it can slash at 80 miles per hour even under water. Oh yes, it is real. This is the shark of many names: whiptail, sea fox, thrasher. Most commonly, perhaps, it goes by the name of “thresher.” Never heard of it? Neither…

Sharks are fish but not fish. Confusing? Absolutely. You can instinctively recognize a distinction between sharks and fish; you know they are different animals, but you cannot quite pin down what the difference is. Sharks fall under the label of “fish,” but they are not the same, and you know it. Here are the 5…

You may struggle to picture in your mind what a lemon shark is or why it matters. I completely understand, as most of us live nowhere near the ocean and, even if we do, we have so much going on in our lives it seems trivial. What may surprise you is that the lemon shark…