Their diet consists of snails ... What should you do if you see a nurse shark while swimming? Probably nothing. They are known to be harmless to humans. The few incidents where humans have ...

If you wanted to do nothing but lie on the sofa all day, you’d have to seriously restrict your diet to avoid gaining ... a super-slow metabolism. The nurse shark’s metabolism is the slowest ...

On this diet, they grow at an exponential rate. By the time they’re born, they’re already three feet long, and invulnerable to many predators. The tawny nurse shark embryos don’t cannibalize ...

A shark at the Birmingham National Sea Life ... and use every trick they can devise to make sure she has a proper diet. 'Nurse sharks do occasionally graze on algae in the wild, and we weren ...

When her 8-year-old son Asher was attacked by a nurse shark on their family vacation, mother Christine Jones says the boy went through a wide range of emotions. “He ...

The population of grey nurse sharks on the east coast of Australia has been increasing since 2008 Despite looking scary, they are not aggressive and enjoy a diet of ... grey nurse shark on the ...

NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island photo The death of a nurse shark is being mourned after the 220-pound predator died of unknown causes at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island. Nursey ...