NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Scientists from the New York Aquarium have located a rare nursery ground for sand tiger sharks near the shore of Long Island in the Great South Bay. Researchers from the ...

Fifteen juvenile sand tiger sharks have been tagged and tracked there in the past four years, making the bay a nursery ground for a protected species whose numbers have fallen worldwide ...

Shark researchers are hoping a necropsy will help explain what killed an endangered young shark found washed up on a Little Compton Beach. The sand tiger shark, a year or less old, was retrieved ...

A school of about 50 sand sharks was spotted off a Long Island beach Tuesday morning — just hours after a girl was bitten at the same beach and nearby a boy suffered injuries in the first ...

These spotlights offer a glimpse into their world. With rows of long, razor-sharp teeth jutting out from a mouth that never closes, sand tiger sharks inspire awe at marine aquariums worldwide. Despite ...

A sand tiger shark was found with at least three stab wounds and left on a Marshfield beach over the weekend. Local shark biologist John Chisholm of the New England Aquarium shared photos of a ...