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A ghostly white angular roughshark found near Sazan Island, Albania, is the first example of leucism ever recorded in the species.

Yes there is a shark highway, says Sarah McPherson. Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, have discovered that sharks readily access the lagoons of the Palmyra Atoll – a 12km2 ring of reefs and islets in the far reaches of the Pacific Ocean – via a deep channel dredged during World War II.

A recent study set out to investigate the horizontal and vertical movements of megamouth sharks in the northwest Pacific, focusing on waters off the coast of Taiwan. By tagging adult megamouth sharks with pop-up satellite archival transmitters, researchers were able to track their movements for periods ranging from 12 to 244 days.

Scientists have finished a three-year study collecting the knowledge of fishers to better understand the population dispersal of sawfish.

To date, it has only been found on the southern end of the Madagascar Ridge and have not been recorded anywhere else in the world. And though exciting, this also raises concerns.

Two critically endangered angel sharks have been tagged by local fishermen and Marine Institute scientists in Tralee Bay, Co Kerry.

Global warming has the potential to reshuffle the spaces used by life on Earth, across all ecosystems. And our new research shows whale sharks – the world’s largest fish – could be at risk, as warming oceans may force them into busy human shipping lanes.

The Basking Shark was spotted just a couple of miles from the Farne Islands in North Northumberland

Researchers tethered 50 long-spined and 50 short-spined urchins outside lobster den and sharks were observed ‘smashing the whole thing’

A fishing crew in southern Albania have caught a blue shark that, until then, had defied the odds. The animal had been skewered through its head by a swordfish and survived in what is the first known case of a shark living after receiving such a wound.