Off the southern coast of Fiji’s main island, a group of bull sharks returns to the same reef, week after week, year after ...

Bull sharks, it turns out, have friends. Scientists have increasingly recognized that sharks, once viewed as largely solitary creatures, have relatively complex social bonds. But studying those ...

A long-term study in Fiji shows they form preferred social relationships, avoid certain individuals, and change how social ...

Spring is in the air — and sharks are on the move!

The concept of friends in the animal world is one that’s been studied fairly frequently. We’ve learned that jaguars have best ...

However, these 12-foot-long, solitary sharks appear to form important social bonds. A study published today in the journal Animal Behaviour finds that they create these relationships with only a few ...

Sharks are often viewed as solitary, but a new study—carried out on the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji—has found that rather than mixing at random, bull sharks have "active social preferences" and ...

Bull sharks may have a reputation as lone hunters, but new research reveals they actually form social bonds and even have preferred “friends.” After six years of observing 184 sharks in Fiji, ...

Mauricio Hoyos has spent 30 years studying the behaviour of different shark species [Mauricio Hoyos] Mauricio Hoyos still remembers the pressure that the jaws of a female Galapagos shark, over 3m ...

New video shows sharks swimming through hoops, and picking them up with their noses. It sure looks like they are having fun. But researchers are divided. A California horn shark (Heterodontus ...