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.

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

It turns out that tawny nurse shark embryos eat their mothers’ unfertilized eggs. Once they’ve feasted on the eggs in one uterus, they swim next door to enjoy a second helping.