Understanding hammerhead sharks’ food preferences could aid efforts to protect the critically endangered fish.

The consequence of such defensive attacks in the marine environment have frightened people. Now, the hammerhead has that really unusual head. Everybody remembers that head. So, when there is one ...

“People are surprised to see them because they are very unusual,” John Reynolds, a laboratory biologist and worm expert, told CTV News Toronto. Hammerhead flatworms are, you guessed ...

Even though hammerhead sharks are a large species, they are generally not a threat to divers. As of 2025, there have only been 18 attacks ever reported, and none were fatal.