For decades, stories persisted of a shark that navigated rivers of Asia and the South Pacific, sometimes taking a chunk out of the unsuspecting bathers or those washing their clothes. But few people ...

A researcher snapped a photo of a rare shark species that has not been seen in a decade at a fish market in Mumbai, India. The Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus) is an endangered shark species that ...

Charles Darwin University PhD Candidate Julia Constance holding a speartooth shark. In a groundbreaking expedition led by Charles Darwin University’s PhD candidate, Julia Constance, alongside Dr.

During a recent research expedition to Papua New Guinea, an international team of scientists stumbled across some unusual shark fins and jaws in a fish market on the small island of Daru. Analysis ...

A shark that can grow to be over 2.5 metres in length and is one of only a handful of sharks around the world that occur in rivers has been found in a Top End waterway. An incredibly rare species of ...

Roberts, Tyson R. 2006. "A new record for the speartooth carcharhinid shark Glyphis glyphis from Pulo Condor, South China Sea." Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, 54, (2) 279–283.

It’s a species that’s never really been seen in the western Indian Ocean. The elusive Ganges river shark (Glyphis gangeticus) is listed as critically endangered, and has not been seen for more than ...