The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. The habitat of thirty species of sharks, ...

New research published in Current Biology warns that deep-sea mining could put dozens of shark, ray, and ghost shark species at risk. Conducted by oceanographers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, ...

There are 465 known species of sharks, ranging from the tiny spined pygmy shark (about 8 inches long) to the whale shark (about 50 feet in length). Each of these sharks plays a role in keeping other ...