The breeding of Grey Nurse Sharks is quite unusual. Mating occurs mainly in autumn and is followed by a 9 - 12 month gestation period and the young are born in winter. Towards the end of the gestation ...

It is listed as vulnerable globally on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals 1996. NSW Fisheries conducted a distribution and abundance study on Grey Nurse Shark from 1998 to 2001 which included ...

Shark nets protect 51 beaches in New South Wales, including Bondi Beach. But opponents of the nets argue they are ineffective ...

An FAU camera on a nurse shark filmed a great white shark off Boynton Beach. The photobomb video was captured around the Donnyboy Silpe Reef. Great white sharks winter in Florida and summer in the ...

Social media posts encouraging tourists to stroke the creatures have led them to be poked and prodded by ignorant travelers ...

However, this has also caused their Vulnerable status on the IUCN Red List. Live sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates) and the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus), also known as the grey nurse shark.

In the end, eight councilors voted to do away with shark nets, beating out the seven councilors who want them to stay. The population of grey nurse sharks on Australia’s East coast has dwindled ...

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A 10-foot-long great white shark image was captured by a nurse shark that Florida Atlantic University researchers had equipped with a camera. The sharks were swimming around the Donnyboy Silpe ...