Footage from Johnnie Mercers Pier captures a rare albino hammerhead shark estimated at eight to nine feet off Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

Learn how this shark uses its unusual noggin, and it sensory organs, to drop the hammer on stingrays and other unfortunate prey.

Just in time for Shark Week! The Atlantic Shark Institute has achieved another milestone in Rhode Island shark research, tagging its first hammerhead shark in waters near Block Island. The hammerhead ...

Hammerhead sharks swimming near the seafloor sometimes swing their wide heads from side to side. It is a movement that looks as if they are searching for a small object dropped in the sand with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hammerhead shark, similar to this one, was spotted Thursday off the Malibu Pier. (Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu via Getty Images) A ...

(Video courtesy of @Johnniemercerspierfishing) WRIGHTSVILLE, N.C. (WNCT/WNCN) — Anglers at the North Carolina coast were able ...

Host, Bertie Gregory dives with several Hammerhead Sharks. (credit: National Geographic/Jeff Hester) National Geographic kicked off its annual summer Sharkfest event in a huge way with a brand-new, ...

Off the coast of Mexico, National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory spots a lifeless creature dangling from a fishing line. With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no ...

Smooth hammerhead shark sightings are increasing near Cape Cod, likely due to warming waters. While large predators, smooth hammerheads are not considered dangerous to humans. Other warm-water shark ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Sometimes a single animal can change the questions scientists are asking. In December 2024, ...

Biscayne Bay's baby hammerheads have a picky diet, and a 2025 study shows exactly how fragile that makes them.

Albinism, the genetic condition which leads to little to no product of melanin, is extremely rare throughout the animal ...