This sort of cannibalism is unusual in sharks, and it gets weirder: once the sand tiger sharks are finishing eating their brothers and sisters, they turn to their mother's unfertilized eggs.

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 ...

A school of about “50 sand sharks” was spotted off a Long Island beach Tuesday morning, officials said — just hours after a girl was bitten at the same beach and nearby a boy suffered ...

Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks, have a deceivingly ferocious look. They are large-bodied and display a mouthful of sharp teeth that protrude in all directions, even when the ...

It's a tough world from the moment of conception for a sand tiger shark. When a female gets pregnant, it's usually with multiple offspring of several different male sharks. As soon as the fetuses ...

For a sand tiger shark embryo, the uterine experience is not so much “safe and nurturing” as it is “Hunger Games” arena. In each of a pregnant sand tiger shark’s two uteri, several egg ...

new research shows at least one species of shark to be not so solitary. Sand tiger sharks even exhibit behaviors typically seen in mammals and only rarely observed in fish. Sand tiger sharks are ...

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 ...

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 ...