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

By tagging the young mako shark, researchers from Virginia Tech and the College of Natural Resources and Environment gathered ...

Reaching speeds of 50kph, the mako is the fastest shark in the sea. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Virginia Tech researchers successfully tagged a young shortfin mako shark in the Mediterranean during the summer of 2023, the first time that this has been done in the region. These sharks are ...

Once the shark was landed, Grey marveled at its build—streamlined, muscular, with a head like a bullet. “I had never seen its like,” he wrote. “Every line of this mako showed speed and ...

A 255-pound mako shark that is nearly 7-feet long has spent the past week off the North Carolina coast, prowling along the Outer Banks. Makos are defined as apex predators and can get up to 1,000 ...

Taiwan’s Fisheries Research Institute (FRI), in collaboration with local and Japanese universities, presented its findings on the behavioral characteristics and thermoregulation mechanisms of the ...