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 ) ...

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.

Here's what they hunt to make up a typical shark diet. Sharks don't really want to eat humans; in fact, they're more scared of us than we are of them. Over two dozen injured in 'heartbreaking ...

Not only that, but the critically endangered shark has only about 400 breeding individuals left in the wild, according to a 10-year study that tracked 34 grey nurse sharks migrating between the ...