Like the intrepid fishermen in “Jaws,” these anglers in Whitianga, New Zealand are definitely going to need a bigger boat. No doubt attracted by their bait, a giant mako leaped into the air and landed ...

In 2013, fishers off Southern California reeled in an enormous, 11-foot-long (3.3 meters) mako shark. At over 1,300 pounds (590 kilograms), the animal — dubbed "The Beast" — was one of the heaviest ...

A sailor caught the moment he spotted a menacing-looking shape swimming near the surface of the water towards their boat in ...

You've probably never seen shark footage quite like this. Fly fishing Captain Mark Martin recorded video of his fishing group hooking a mako shark, and it subsequently breaching out of the water as it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shark researchers at Australia's University of Auckland were surprised recently to see an orange octopus perched atop a mako shark ...

A 12-foot-long, 926-pound mako shark was reeled in by a fishing crew in New Jersey, and officials say it’s the biggest shark ...

Mako sharks are some of the most elusive sharks in the world. Because mako sharks prefer the open ocean to the shallower areas near the shoreline, less is known about them than about other species.

Mako shark swimming near the surface out in the open ocean. This image was taken on a baited shark dive 50 kms offshore past Western Cape. The tagging was part of the White Shark Chase initiative, ...

"That's an octopus! Oh my god!" an observer exclaims Wednesday Davis/University of Auckland An octopus got to rest its many legs when it ended up aboard a mako shark for a leisurely ride. In a video ...

After about one day, the logger detached from the shark, floated to the surface, and was retrieved to obtain the data. Tunas, billfishes, and some sharks, such as white sharks and shortfin mako sharks ...