By Shreya Dasgupta The critically endangered African penguin has several predators to fear, including gulls, seals and sharks ...

South Africa is renowned for having one of the world’s biggest populations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). Substantial declines have been observed, however, in places where the ...

In less than eight years, white sharks in South Africa have all but disappeared from their historical hotspots in False Bay and Gansbaai, on the Western Cape coast. These areas were once known as ...

Great white sharks were once abundant in South Africa’s False Bay and Gansbaai regions. But now, they appear to have ventured to safer waters elsewhere. Morne Hardenberg Courtesy Hakai Magazine ...

Great white sharks have disappeared from Cape Town, South Africa, with nary a single shark having been spotted over the past 18 months. Experts are baffled by the development.

Shark diving tourism is a growing, worldwide million-dollar industry and white shark cage diving tourism in South Africa developed shortly after the country passed national legislation in 1991 ...

They just moved. Across South Africa, the scientists found, the white-shark population has undergone a pronounced eastward shift. To Jewell, who wasn’t involved in the research, this makes sense.

A recent article in African Journal of Marine Science focuses on two killer whales researchers have discovered that hunt great white sharks off the coast of South Africa. The whale pair's appetite ...

The shark spotters have assigned names for some of their more regular visitors: Charlize, a 4.5-meter-long female named after South African actress Charlize Theron; Speedy, who dives in the waves ...