Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks ... feeding at night and generally staying close to the bottom. Their staple is small fish, but they will eat crustaceans and squid as well.

This happens swiftly for small sharks, but larger species are ... For the study, Wyffel and colleagues examined mating wounds in sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus) — a critically endangered ...

Curtis was on a fishing "trip of a lifetime" with friends in South Africa when he was attacked by the huge ragged tooth shark, also known as a sand tiger shark. They had just landed the whopper ...

OARAI, Ibaraki Prefecture--A sand tiger shark was born at the Aqua World Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium here, the first successful breeding of the species in Japan. Only four other aquariums ...

are thought to be even faster. Youngest shark to bite a human: A marine biologist, while probing the uterus of a pregnant sand tiger shark, was bitten by an unborn pup. The strongest shark bite ...

Sand tiger sharks eat their siblings in the womb; a phenomenon known as embryonic cannibalism or embryophagy. When the first embryo in each uterus reaches a certain size it consumes all its siblings.

WNS Curtis went to South Africa for a fishing trip with pals when he was attacked by a sand tiger shark. He managed to catch the shark and was just taking the hook off its mouth when the beast ...