The New England Aquarium in Boston now has a new nurse shark — the first one in 10 years. Cirri, a 3.5 foot, 22 pound female nurse shark, can be seen in the aquarium's Caribbean coral reef exhibit.

"SeaQuest’s Fort Worth location has finally closed, ending its legacy of misery and death," PETA wrote after three ...

Three days after the incident, the Archipelago corporation, Coralina, alerted on its social networks that a group of people caught a nurse shark. Since it became known of the attack on the Italian ...

The first point was that the shark was only 24 inches long and a nurse shark, not a maneater. The second point was that the shark was harassed by the boy. In fact, it wasn't until the boy grabbed ...

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on March 26, 2024. Swimming ...

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.

Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks, have a deceivingly ferocious look. They are large-bodied and display a mouthful of sharp teeth that protrude in all directions, even when the ...

After a family lunch in an area known as Staniel Cay, Katarina spotted people snorkelling and interacting with a pack of nurse sharks nearby. Despite concern from her boyfriend's family ...

When Pixar needed an underwater villain for its animated film Finding Nemo, it didn’t look to the affable nurse shark or the aggressive bull shark. Not even the tiger shark, which would be more ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Despite growing to a frightening 14 feet, nurse sharks generally don't harm humans. At Compass Cay, a private island in the Bahamas, you can swim with swarms of them.

But at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students and faculty are learning from sharks everyday which is leading to advancements in cancer research. Six male nurse sharks live in a tank inside ...