Nurse sharks are particularly unassuming sharks, often seen lying motionless on the seabed, or under rocky overhangs. But when it comes to finding a mate, they really start to liven up.

Nurse shark mating is not a gentle affair. The male bites the female’s pectoral fin, rolling her over and pinning her to the seabed. Many males often attempt to mate with a single female, who in turn ...

The nurse shark is a bottom dweller and catches its ... and have been known to crawl along the bottom of seabeds using their fins. Unlike other sharks, the horn shark prefers to stay put in ...

The “surprise” birth of a gray nurse shark in Australia is good news for the endangered predator species. Getty Images/iStockphoto Months after endangered gray nurse shark Mary-Lou was seen ...

The distressing video, posted on Facebook last week by the Forster Dive Centre, shows the plastic ring slicing into the shark's body. "We encountered this poor Grey Nurse Shark yesterday at Seal ...

Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks, have a deceivingly ferocious ... Sand tigers are the only shark known to come to the surface and gulp air. They store the air in their stomachs ...