Fact Files

Find out about all your favourite sharks with our Fact Files!

Each Fact File has information about size, diet, distribution, habitat, conservation status and distribution. Each one also has a fun fact for you to share with your friends and family. Click on the Fact File image you want to download the pdf.

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CREATURE FEATURE: DUSKY SHARK

This month we’re taking a look at the Dusky Shark, a highly migratory species with a particularly slow growth rate and late age at maturity.
Shark Month @ Royal William Yard

Shark Week is a renowned cultural phenomenon – but Plymouth is going bigger and better this summer by welcoming Shark Month to Royal William Yard this July.
#TeamSHARK take on Plymouth Half Marathon 2024

We work in shark conservation because a 1/3 of all sharks and rays are threatened with extinction. If we are able to do more, we can make sure they have a positive future! By donating, you are supporting the important work we do for sharks and rays!!
Stokes Sisters Run for Sharks

Sharks and rays are amazing. Present in our seas for 400 million years, they are vital and valuable but also vulnerable. 1/3 of all shark, skate, ray and chimaera species are threatened with extinction, largely due to the impact of unsustainable fisheries. The Shark Trust works tirelessly around the World to ensure sharks and rays are suitably protected. That's why I'm helping the Shark Trust to safeguard their future with this fundraiser. Together we can create positive change.

Speaking Up For The Ocean Toolkit

This toolkit, designed by Framing Matters and the Shark Trust, is for educators / communicators / partners in marine and shark conservation.
Shark Focus

Shark Focus is the Shark Trust's members magazine. Packed with content all about sharks and marine conservation. Join now for access to Shark Focus as soon as it's released!
Shark Shorts

The Shark Trust's short animated video series explaining the basics of what sharks are and what we can do to protect them
Fishing Advisories

Each year we produce Commercial Fisheries Advisories in line with the latest UK and EU law.
60 Second Sharks

Short videos about sharks: conservation, biology, ecology and more
CREATURE FEATURE: THE SPINNER SHARK

This month, it’s the turn (excuse the pun) of the Spinner Shark to swim into the spotlight. This shark is famous for its aerial acrobatics.
CREATURE FEATURE: OCEANIC WHITETIP

This month, it’s the turn of a legendary shark – the Oceanic Whitetip. Known for their incredibly long dorsal and pectoral fins, this species was once the most abundant oceanic-pelagic species of shark on the planet.
CREATURE FEATURE: COWNOSE RAY

This month we’re showing off one of the lesser-known rays: the Cownose ray. A migratory species, the Cownose ray is so-called due to it’s high-domed head and two lobes on the top of their head. These lobes, when viewed from above, resemble a cow’s nose.
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Shark Ecology

Sharks have adapted to inhabit a wide range of niches in every ocean and sea around the world. Click here to find out more about the environments in which sharks live.