Like the nurse shark, this species eats via suction, and that’s not where the resemblance stops. Whale and nurse sharks are both members of the order Orectolobiformes, a group of 39 shark ...

A nurse shark spends much of its day hiding out in the dark. The shark has a much slower metabolism than faster-moving sharks, a new study shows. Peppe Cirotti/Wikimedia Commons ( CC-BY-SA 3.0 ) ...

A nurse shark at the Birmingham National Sea Life Center in England appears to have become the world's first vegetarian shark after developing a palate for heads of lettuce and other veggies ...

“To advance our understanding of nurse shark behaviour and ecology, we used opportunistic video observations gathered throughout the islands of Turks and Caicos from September 2020 to April 2021 ...

Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) brothers help each other get a mate. Diet. Feeds on crustaceans, conch, squid, shellfish, fish and even stingrays. Habitat.

The study, published in early November in the Environmental Biology of Fishes journal, has revealed that nurse sharks cans seemingly “walk,” and do a headstand, on the ocean floor while they feed.

Nurse sharks have razor sharp but small teeth that seldom penetrate deeply: "Holding still reduces damage to both shark and man. Leaving sharks alone is the best tactic," the Park Service says.

With a menacing grin, needle-like teeth, and a sharp pointed snout, a gray nurse shark isn’t a creature that most people would want to encounter. But Shalise Leesfield isn’t most people. The ...

Stock image of a gray nurse shark. Four gray nurse sharks have washed up dead in Australia over the past year. iStock / Getty Images Plus. Gray nurse sharks, also known as ragged-tooth sharks or ...