Their bite wounds are generally around 2 inches wide and 2.75 inches long. The cookie-cutter shark is a parasitic shark which attaches itself to larger fish, like the dolphin pictured.

For reasons unknown, cookie-cutter sharks stepped up their attacks on people. “In a historic first, the elusive, foot-long cookie cutter shark was responsible for three of 2019’s attacks ...

The shark even swipes “cookies” from great whites, some of the largest marine hunters with no natural predators except for orcas—and cookie-cutters eat orca “cookies,” too.

The cookiecutter shark is actually a very small species that lives in the deep ocean below 3,200 feet. At night, however, the sharks rise to the surface in order to feed, and it's the way they ...

University of Delaware assistant professor Aaron Carlisle led a study published in Scientific Reports that uncovered the potential diet and habitat of Cookiecutter sharks, a small, under-studied shark ...

Cookiecutter sharks are known for ripping small, cookie-shaped chunks out of sharks and whales much larger than themselves, but a new study finds that they actually terrorize animals of all sizes.

Only one person, a long-distance swimmer, has ever been attacked by a cookie-cutter shark. It came after him twice in fifteen seconds, and gave him a nasty deep bite on his calf, but he survived.

One of the world’s least known shark species, the cookie-cutter, was responsible for a trio of attacks on humans last year, using a method of cutting out a cookie-shaped chunk of flesh ...

One of the world’s least known shark species, the cookie-cutter, was responsible for a trio of attacks on humans last year, using a method of cutting out a cookie-shaped chunk of flesh ...