Endangered Species

"As well as harming the shark, this person is potentially stealing the opportunity for a life-changing wildlife encounter from future visitors and generations," an expert said.

"It was exhausting," Pawlowski told Newsweek. "Like climbing a stair stepper for eight hours a day with a pillow over your face."

The incident took place in the Madhya Pradesh region of India.

Poaching of vulnerable and endangered animals has increased in recent months because of a drought scorching Kenya and other nearby African countries.

The body of the 11-foot male American crocodile was taken from a lagoon in Belize to be buried.

The skipper and his five passengers were relieved there was a windscreen between them and the shark as it thrashed around on deck.

Great white sharks have declined in population worldwide by between 30 and 49 percent in recent decades, in large part due to overfishing and fishing gear.

"As the caterpillar grows it develops the skull pattern as a defence strategy to shock potential predators," conservation officer Mick Andren told Newsweek.

Bob is one of the many animals tagged by OCEARCH, a non-profit ocean research organization that tags and studies sharks and turtles, among other species.

The dead sunfish found off the coast of the Azores in the North Atlantic weighed more than a white rhino.

The tiny Amargosa vole doesn't live anywhere else on Earth, and a 2015 forecast said it had an 82 percent chance of extinction within five years.

There are around 4,600 species of cockroaches in the world, and they are infamous for being resistant to environmental change, and even the nuclear apocalypse.

Colossal Biosciences is working on the development of a vaccine designed to protect endangered Asian elephants from a highly fatal disease.

The Greenback cutthroat trout was discovered reproducing naturally after decades of intensive recovery efforts to bring the fish from the brink of extinction.

The New England Aquarium told Newsweek that scientists are "evaluating potential next steps" as Storm Fiona rages on, making it difficult to rescue Snow Cone.

Four-foot waves were recorded in a tiny pool in Death Valley called Devils Hole, having been caused by an earthquake in Mexico, 1000 miles away.

Megamouth sharks are so rare that there have only been 269 recorded sightings, ever.

The critically endangered species is so rare there now only around 20 roaming North Carolina.

The sightings come a year after an entire pack in the state was poisoned to death by humans.

Endangered mako sharks are renowned for their acrobatic displays when they are caught on fishing lines.

Rarely observed mass circle-swimming behavior in endangered basking sharks confirmed to be "shark speed-dating".

Albert, as he was known to the Florida family he had been plaguing, was killed by a friend who had an alligator hunting permit.

Over half of the Mirage Casino's dolphins have died young in the 22 years since the habitat opened.

Several animals have escaped through the fence of Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park in South Africa and are causing chaos in the area.

Until this year, the rare and endangered California condor had not been seen flying free in Northern California, once part of their historic range, since 1892.

Having dropped to a population of a mere two wolves in 2018, there are now 28 individuals on Isle Royale thanks to restoration efforts.

A diver from British Columbia, Canada, has been fined $9,250 for getting too close to a group of protected killer whales.

Alison Towner who has been studying these killings since they began five years ago shared images of the latest kill on Facebook.

A South Carolina police officer said one of the swimmers had sustained a "bad bite" to the forearm.

A fourth gray nurse shark, one of the most endangered shark species, has washed up dead in Australia in less than a year.