Panic around the incident is not doing sharks — misunderstood and feared since before the 1974 release of the movie “Jaws” and much more since then — any favors.

The groupers, fat and about two feet long, are not alone: Hundreds of gray reef sharks assemble as well, to stalk them. The female groupers, like other reef fish, spend at most a few days in the ...

By Marco Lopez Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this atoll home and is a matriarch of the thriving population of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) ...