MIAMI, Fla. -- Officials have confiscated about $1 million worth of shark fins. The shipment includes roughly 1,400 pounds of the animal products that were hidden in 18 boxes. "An estimated one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With their powerful bodies, tall dorsal fins, and rows of sharp teeth, sharks are some of the most recognizable predators in the ...

U.S. authorities have assisted the Peruvian government in seizing an estimated 10,000 individual shark fins destined for China — one of the largest wildlife trafficking operations in Latin American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. United States officials said they recently helped Peruvian authorities bust one of the largest wildlife trafficking operations in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Márquez is a marine scientist and science communicator The idea that a shark’s dorsal fin might be more than just a stabilizer may ...

Worldwide, eleven thousand (11,000) sharks will be killed within the next 60 minutes. That’s 180 sharks per minute; it’s a bloody affair. One hundred million (100,000,000) are killed per year, mostly ...

Passengers and crew on a boat headed from Ventura to Santa Cruz Island spotted a 20-foot basking shark this week. Here's what ...