An oceanic whitetip shark, once described by Oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks, clamped down on a diver’s leg in an alarming video captured off ...

The shark is listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. The U.S. government listed the oceanic whitetip as threatened in 2018 and is finalizing ...

An oceanic whitetip shark swimming in the open ocean. This species was common in the 1970s but its population has since declined by 98 percent, according to a new study. Thomas Ehrensperger via ...

The oceanic whitetip shark's declining status in the wild warrants listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, an arm of the federal government has determined. ...

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Oceanic shark populations dropped 71 percent since 1970 By . Associated Press. Published Jan. 28, 2021, 1:04 p.m. ET. A sand tiger shark above a school of cigar minnows off the coast of North ...

Over the past half century, oceanic, or open-ocean, shark and ray population sizes have shrunk by 71 percent, according to a study published January 27 in Nature, a trend that coincides with increased ...

Globally, the abundance of oceanic sharks and rays dropped more than 70 percent between 1970 and 2018, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.