Scalloped hammerhead sharks hold their breath to keep their bodies warm during deep dives into cold water where they hunt prey such as deep sea squids. This discovery, published today in Science by ...

Scalloped hammerhead sharks hold their breath to keep their bodies warm during deep dives into cold water where they hunt prey such as deep sea squids, according to a study published Thursday in the ...

Sharks are among the best swimmers on the planet, but new research suggests that even they sometimes "hold their breath" while diving deep underwater. The reason is that sharks are ectothermic, or ...

That’s how Hawaii researchers characterized their recent findings into the hunting habits of scalloped hammerhead sharks off the islands. The key revelation: The animals hold their breath to keep warm ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A researcher from the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered something that was “a complete surprise” while studying scalloped hammerhead sharks. The University of Hawaii recently ...

“The heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded weighed a whopping 1280 pounds.” The great hammerhead shark is found in a variety of water depths such as shallow lagoons and coral reefs, and in ...

Beginning in May and lasting through July, gestating females of this distinctive species will seek shallow waters in protected bays to give birth to litters of pups ranging in number from 15 to 31, ...