Our selection of top shark stories, highlighting the latest news and discoveries from around the world...

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Largest Fish Ever Spotted in the Pacific: A Record-Breaking Discovery

1st September

A record-breaking 60-foot fish has been spotted in the Pacific Ocean, sparking a wave of excitement and new questions about the ocean’s hidden giants.

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Never-before-seen sharks discovered in China thanks to the most unusual experiment of the year

4th September

Scientists dropped a cow into the South China Sea to study deep-sea life. What they found—rare sharks, polite feeding, and hidden biodiversity—was astonishing.

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Much of US shark meat comes from endangered species, study finds

12th September

The research, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested products from supermarkets, fish markets and online retailers. Astonishingly, 93% of the samples were either falsely labeled or so vaguely described that buyers had no way of knowing the species they were eating. Only one item carried an accurate, species-specific label.

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'Shark surveying helped improve my mental health'

18th September

Volunteers who have been helping scientists to understand more about our oceans said connecting with nature had transformed their lives.

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‘Extinct’ 3m largetooth sawfish washes up on Eastern Cape coast

23rd September

A 3m sawfish, previously thought to be extinct since there had been no recorded sightings of the species in 26 years, was found at the Birha River mouth, about 90km from the East London coast in South Africa, on Friday, 19 September. The find also has experts in orca predation interested, because it appears something took a big bite out of the fish before it stranded.

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