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 ...

Persistence paid off, however, and Nifong confirmed four separate instances in which an American alligator ate a lemon shark, a nurse shark, a bonnethead shark, and an Atlantic stingray.

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 ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — There are now several critically endangered short-tail nurse shark pups at the Tennessee Aquarium. The Aquarium said short-tail nurse sharks are found in the tropical waters of ...