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How well could you eat with a saw on your face? If you were a sawshark, you couldn’t eat without one! Sawsharks are named for their long snouts, which have sharp teeth protruding from either side. They attack their prey by slashing these “saws” from
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Sawshark

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Artistic rendering of an ancient shark, Helicoprion.
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Illustration of Helicoprion

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Great White Sharks breach to hunt -- with split-second timing they grab their prey in one swift snatch. Follow the whole breaching action in this slideshow.
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Breaching Great White Shark on the Hunt

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A whale shark swimming in the water.
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Tagging Along With Whale Sharks

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A diagram of a shark's six highly refined senses: smell, hearing, touch, taste, sight, and electromagnetism
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Shark Senses

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A screenshot from the video asking what if there were no sharks.
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What If There Were No Sharks?

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A great white shark gaping its jaws at the surface of the water; gaping is used as a form of communication in sharks
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Gaping Jaws of a Great White Shark

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A screenshot from the video showing a map that highlights shark protections around the globe.
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Map of Shark Protections Through Time

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An underwater photo of sharks
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Why Are We So Afraid of Sharks? It Could Be the Background Music

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A screenshot from the video showing scientists holding a small shark preparing for tagging.
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Tagging Sharks with the Smithsonian Movement of Life Initiative

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Researcher Greg Skomal answers students' questions about Great White Sharks.
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Great White Shark: One Species at a Time

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A large tiger shark swims above a thresher shark, epaulette shark, and zebra shark in the open ocean
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Shark Tail Fins Tell a Story

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