Though mature females can exceed 1,300 pounds, the sharks remain fast enough to ambush speedy tuna. In the summer of 2015 I was invited to join a mako-tagging ... to catch swim northward up ...

Virginia Tech researchers tagged the first mako shark in the Mediterranean, uncovering key movement data critical for ...

They can swim so fast because of a combination of physical ... and a high proportion of red muscle fibers to reduce drag. Mako Shark Mako sharks belong to the family of the mackerel shark family ...

They are the fastest sharks in the ocean and have a mechanism that overheats their eyes so they can see fast-moving ... Atlantic and can swim at 45 mp/h (72.4 km/h). The Mako species is a critical ...

A 255-pound mako shark that is nearly 7-feet long has spent ... Divers who have encountered short fin makos note that they swim in a figure eight pattern and approach with mouths open prior ...

The shortfin mako, the fastest shark in the world, and the longfin mako are among the shark species being caught in large numbers in the North Atlantic, according to Greenpeace. Both species are ...