The Long Island Aquarium is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and is doing so with many of its original marine life ...

But they are disasters from which the reef has always recovered. Drawn to the smell of a dead sperm whale, a ten-foot tiger shark arrives at the edge of the reef to feast on floating flesh.

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. This summer, we’ll look at three shark species with notorious reputations: tiger sharks, great whites and oceanic ...

I was lucky enough to be invited on a Diverse Travel trip to the Revillagigedo Archipelago (or Socorro as many people like to ...

tiger sharks and bull sharks, between 2013 and 2019 in the Protea Banks reef of South Africa. The data revealed that all six species came and went with the seasons, though they followed their own ...

But some, like the tiger shark, are powerful enough to bite right ... are fierce predatory fish that patrol outer reef areas in large schools. Like many predators, they have evolved as extremely ...

Divers hanging out with a school of tiger sharks in the Bahamas had a wild run-in with one particularly curious specimen. A video shared by diver Andrea Ramos Nascimento on Instagram shows a shark ...

Like their oceangoing cousins, Caribbean reef sharks swim fast to force water through their mouths and over their gills so they can take in oxygen. But they can also ventilate their gills by using ...

A new aquatic creature is joining Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach ahead of the busy tourist season. The Dangerous Reef exhibit at the aquarium is now home to ...

The return of apex predators such as sharks can restore critical ecological balance to coral reefs, creating healthier ecosystems. New research found a rise in the shark population on Ashmore Reef ...