Throughout his more than 40-year career at the University of Florida, George Burgess gained an international reputation with the media and public as a reliable ...
With 88 reported unprovoked shark attacks and five fatalities worldwide, 2017 was “just an average year,” according to the University of Florida International S...
Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in the ocean.
By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Flori...
Shark researcher George Burgess displays an original July 1916 issue of the New York Tribune describing the New Jersey attacks, known as "The 12 Days of Terror...
It’s the kind of record no one wants to break: the most shark attacks in a single year. But 2015 did just that, with 98 unprovoked attacks worldwide, beating th...
The migration of mature female tiger sharks during late summer and fall to the main Hawaiian Islands, presumably to give birth, could provide insight into attac...
Researchers have discovered the great white shark, one of the most feared ocean predators, can occasionally become prey for the mysterious cookiecutter shark, a...
Researchers at the Florida Museum recently received $24,000 from the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund to continue studying the endangered smalltooth sawfish.
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A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers provides details on the first cookiecutter shark attack on a live human, a concern as warm summer w...
A new study led by a Florida Museum researcher uses tracking data of three shark species to provide the first evidence some of the fish swim directly to targete...
