Scientists studying one of the world’s rarest sharks may have found that we have been aging some sharks incorrectly for ...

For decades, stories persisted of a shark that navigated rivers of Asia and the South Pacific, sometimes taking a chunk out of the unsuspecting bathers or those washing their clothes. But few people ...

During a recent research expedition to Papua New Guinea, an international team of scientists stumbled across some unusual shark fins and jaws in a fish market on the small island of Daru. Analysis ...

Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers and First Nations Yugul Mangi Rangers have discovered a new population of a rare and threatened shark species in the Northern Territory's Roper River. The ...

Charles Darwin University PhD Candidate Julia Constance holding a speartooth shark. In a groundbreaking expedition led by Charles Darwin University’s PhD candidate, Julia Constance, alongside Dr.

Roberts, Tyson R. 2007. "A new record for the speartooth carcharhinid shark Glyphis glyphis from Pulo Condor, South China Sea." Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, (2) 279.

A shark that can grow to be over 2.5 metres in length and is one of only a handful of sharks around the world that occur in rivers has been found in a Top End waterway. An incredibly rare species of ...

They are one of the most elusive sharks ever. Lurking in murky tropical rivers, no live adults had ever been seen before. Now the first adult speartooth sharks (Glyphis glyphis) have been tagged and ...