A fisherman spotted what appears to be a hammerhead shark in Long Island Sound near Niantic on Monday.

"It came around the front of my boat and like took his face out of the water...he kind of like tail slapped my boat and dove straight out," Joshua Enman said.

This shark's unusual name comes from the unusual shape of its head, an amazing piece of anatomy built to maximize the fish's ability to find its favorite meal: stingrays. A hammerhead shark uses its ...

Just in time for Shark Week! The Atlantic Shark Institute has achieved another milestone in Rhode Island shark research, tagging its first hammerhead shark in waters near Block Island. The hammerhead ...

A marine heat wave and El Niño conditions are keeping ocean water off the Southern California coast in the mid-70s, which is luring exotic species to the area.

A whale watching cruise off the Oceanside coast captured a rare video of a hammerhead shark amid unseasonably warm Pacific ...

A surfer in his fifties was rushed to hospital on Monday after being bitten by a shark in Western Australia, the state government and local ambulance service said.Three divers were also fatally mauled ...

"On American and Australian beaches, it is very common to see this shark species preying on rays." ...

Off the coast of Mexico, National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory spots a lifeless creature dangling from a fishing line. With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no ...

Hammerhead sharks get comfortable enough around diver Eli Martinez that they have no problem taking fish from him. Hammerhead shark feeds out of Eli Martinez’s hand in Bahamas; photo by JP ...

Meet Frost, the newest addition to our home aquarium a juvenile hammerhead shark with sleek lines, sharp senses, and major ...

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