Midwinter marks the annual return of humpback whales to Hawaiʻi, swimming down from Alaska to breed in the warmer waters. Tiger sharks start showing up in greater numbers soon thereafter from across ...

Tiger sharks are typically solitary wanderers, and it wasn’t clear to scientists how they came together to reproduce. But as HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, groundbreaking research from the ...

A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first-ever documented mating hub for tiger sharks, Olowalu, Maui. This ...

OLOWALU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa has solved a longstanding mystery. Biologists from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Shark Lab have ...

Mating calls and rituals can be intercepted, or drowned out, by invasive species. Scientists are just starting to understand ...

Sharktober is real in Hawaii — and it's down to the reproductive pattern of predatory tiger sharks, an analysis of 30 years ...

Groundhogs emerge from their burrows around Feb.4. This fits the folklore of Groundhog Day, but predicting the weather is not their objective.

The amazing thing about the animal kingdom is that there’s always something new to discover. Many animals have been around ...

Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species. Some hybrids occur naturally where habitats overlap, while others result ...

Located at the San Diego Zoo, Gramma, the resident tortoise, was born in the Galapagos Islands around 1884. Those at the zoo ...