The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is scheduled to vote Wednesday on legislation to that aims to stop wild sharks from biting fish on fishing lines. The so-called ...

The behavior, known as depredation, is becoming more common off the coast of Cape Cod, where fishermen are contending with a growing shark population.

Moving at a speed of around two miles per hour, basking sharks can filter around 2,000 tons of seawater an hour. Unlike the two other filter-feeding sharks— whale sharks, the biggest fish on Earth, ...

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When Becky O’Brien dangles herring over a tank of over a dozen swimming sharks, it only takes seconds for a zebra shark to snatch the fish from her tongs. At Las Vegas casino’s shark tank, the sharks ...