Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, ...

nations can follow suit. It’s no secret that sharks, rays, and chimaeras are disappearing at an alarming rate. It’s also no secret that overfishing remains the biggest threat, with demand for ...

Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) are fundamental for understanding vertebrate evolution, yet their genomes are understudied. We report long-read sequencing of the whale shark genome to generate ...

Sharks and their relatives (chondrichthyans, herein “sharks”) are more vulnerable to overfishing due to their conservative life-history traits, such as slow growth, old ages of reproduction, long ...