Like the intrepid fishermen in “Jaws,” these anglers in Whitianga, New Zealand are definitely going to need a bigger boat. No doubt attracted by their bait, a giant mako leaped into the air and landed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The toothy fish in question is actually based on a specimen housed here in the ichthyology collection of the American Museum of ...

In 2013, fishers off Southern California reeled in an enormous, 11-foot-long (3.3 meters) mako shark. At over 1,300 pounds (590 kilograms), the animal — dubbed "The Beast" — was one of the heaviest ...

You've probably never seen shark footage quite like this. Fly fishing Captain Mark Martin recorded video of his fishing group hooking a mako shark, and it subsequently breaching out of the water as it ...

Mako shark swimming near the surface out in the open ocean. This image was taken on a baited shark dive 50 kms offshore past Western Cape. The tagging was part of the White Shark Chase initiative, ...

Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be providing taxi service for an octopus. The bizarre interaction, captured in ...

"That's an octopus! Oh my god!" an observer exclaims Wednesday Davis/University of Auckland An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video ...

A fishing-themed Instagram page on Thursday shared graphic footage showing a large mako shark savagely attacking a sea lion off Southern California. (Footage is posted below.) There was no doubt about ...

Mako sharks are some of the most elusive sharks in the world. Because mako sharks prefer the open ocean to the shallower areas near the shoreline, less is known about them than about other species.

A mysterious pairing of ocean creatures – a shark and an octopus – has researchers in New Zealand puzzled.

It’s not just great white sharks hunting for Cape Cod seals these days. Those on a whale watch learned that recently when they spotted a mako shark chomping on a seal, as they saw the water turn ...