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Kids will soon be unleashed into backyards to find eggs left behind by the Easter bunny. But instead of collecting the same old egg this year, how about collecting something different?

The Marine Megafauna Foundation are very happy to share a new scientific paper, published today in Endangered Species Research (free to read), that describes two shiny new research techniques: the use of underwater ultrasound to study the reproduction of free-swimming whale sharks, and how we can collect blood samples from these same whale sharks in the wild.

A huge shark has been spotted swimming inside a Cornish harbour. The basking shark was described as "absolutely massive" by a stunned holidaymaker and can be seen wading around just meters from the beach on video.

Peter credits the recent location of the rare and relatively unknown clownfish wedgefish to searching social media posts of wedgefish catches. But his focus now is ground-truthing where this species occurs in the wild, and what habitat it uses.

New Zealand has 44 marine reserves in its territorial waters. All are no-take zones: no fishing of any kind and no resource extraction. Though intended to protect overfished species—snapper, blue cod, spiny lobster, for instance—the reserves likely provide cover for a range of other species, including sharks.

A team spanning 15 countries is raising endangered sharks from aquariums and reintroducing them to the wild, starting in Indonesia. It's never been done at this scale, but experts think the plan might work.

The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is one the most recognizable of the shark species, but even it has a few secrets of its own. Turns out almost nothing is known about the tiger shark in South Atlantic waters!

The project aims to focus on one of Ireland's most threatened species with the hope to safeguard the species for future generations. The Angelshark (Squatina squatina), which is often locally called monkfish, is a species of flat shark.