Learn how this shark uses its unusual noggin, and it sensory organs, to drop the hammer on stingrays and other unfortunate prey.

A scalloped hammerhead shark can glide over an apparently empty seabed and detect a stingray hiding beneath the sand. Its bizarre-looking head helps this predator read tiny electrical signals that ...

A $5,000 reward is being offered for information relating to who killed a hammerhead shark in Florida. Hammerhead sharks are "prohibited species" in Florida waters, but that hasn't stopped people from ...

Just in time for Shark Week! The Atlantic Shark Institute has achieved another milestone in Rhode Island shark research, tagging its first hammerhead shark in waters near Block Island. The hammerhead ...

Scalloped hammerhead sharks in the Red Sea. (Gerard Soury/Photodisc/Getty Images) Drones watching for sharks off Australia's east coast have filmed dozens of young hammerheads swimming together in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A great hammerhead shark's two eyes can be 3 feet apart on opposite sides of its skull. Ken Kiefer 2/Image Source via Getty Images ...

Host, Bertie Gregory dives with several Hammerhead Sharks. (credit: National Geographic/Jeff Hester) National Geographic kicked off its annual summer Sharkfest event in a huge way with a brand-new, ...

Smooth hammerhead shark sightings are increasing near Cape Cod, likely due to warming waters. While large predators, smooth hammerheads are not considered dangerous to humans. Other warm-water shark ...

A new species of hammerhead shark has been discovered, and its namesake is the late Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and a well-known champion for marine conservation who played a ...

Off the coast of Mexico, National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory spots a lifeless creature dangling from a fishing line. With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no ...

Hammerhead shark feeds out of Eli Martinez’s hand in Bahamas; photo by JP Zegarra/Caters News Agency used by permission An experienced diver who leads shark diving tours took multiple trips and spent ...

"The heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded weighed a whopping 1280 pounds." The great hammerhead shark is found in a variety of water depths such as shallow lagoons and coral reefs, and in ...