To ensure a meal, the Mako shark implements certain tactics when hunting. It will often attack and bite off the tail of its prey so that it can’t swim away, and the shark doesn’t have to waste ...

Anglers aboard a San Diego sportfishing boat watched in awe this week as a mako shark attacked a ... to haul the fish aboard when the shark chomped onto its tail end. “Get some!” ...

This is a photograph of shortfin mako shark scales which each measure about ... orientation is that flow from nose to tail would pass from left to right over the skin. Scales are translucent ...

Shortfin mako sharks are built for speed. Their streamlined, torpedo-shaped body, powerful muscular tail and specially adapted ... They are a highly valuable shark on the international market ...

Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be providing taxi service for an octopus. The bizarre interaction ...

No doubt attracted by their bait, a giant mako leaped into the air and landed on the front of the boat. It’s hard to say who was more shocked — the fishermen or the shark. Makos are predatory ...

Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be providing taxi service for an octopus. The bizarre interaction, captured in ...

A woman captured the shocking moment a group of beachgoers dragged a mako shark back to the water by its fins Michael Lee Simpson is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. His work has previously ...

Once the shark was landed, Grey marveled at its build—streamlined, muscular, with a head like a bullet. “I had never seen its like,” he wrote. “Every line of this mako showed speed and ...

The Department of Conservation is searching for a great white shark seen in Waikato with a rope around its tail. The three-metre ... It comes after a live mako shark washed up at Christchurch ...

The plates cost $42.50 for a set, with $20 of the price going to the Atlantic Shark Institute. The plates, which feature the endangered mako shark, are the fastest-selling and most popular charity ...