From Mother Nature Network's Russell McLendon: The 25th annual Shark Week may be wrapping up, but things are just getting started for a robot in th...

While most fans of Shark Week enjoyed sharks from the safety of home, Discovery offered a number of tips for avoiding a shark attack if you find your...

Great whites have survived for millions of years, surviving mass extinctions and rightfully earning their top spot as apex ocean predators. But unless we increase protections for them, they may not survive much longer.

Shark Week 2012 has been full of great footage, including shots of leaping great whites and amazing underwater scenes. But one particularly impressive...

The tiger shark lurking in the deep waters off the Hawaiian island of Kauai didn’t give any warning; it didn’t show a telltale fin. Instead it swa...

A group of shark attack survivors have joined together in what many would think of as an unlikely and ironic mission -- to conserve and restore the world's dwindling shark population.

I've seen sharks on many dives. I've dived with Great whites, and also with Tiger sharks, Reef sharks, Lemon sharks, Nurse sharks, and more. I've never been bitten by a shark. Here are some tips for avoiding a shark bite.

I am hard pressed to meet a colleague that has not been affected by this film. In addition, the public fascination with sharks spurred by Jaws helped lead to a dramatic uptick in shark research that has shaped how we understand the ocean today.

A few weeks ago, HuffPost Green featured amazing video footage of great white sharks breaching in super-slow motion, recorded on Phantom cameras for D...

Sharks prey on a variety of animals, but there are some lesser-known objects that sharks have also consumed. The Discovery Channel is airing their hig...

We find ourselves presented with an opportunity -- given the annual media festival that is Shark Week -- to better inform ourselves and to appreciate that we as humans have very little (if nothing) to fear from sharks.