EditorialMichelle Liwacz reads her first grade class a book called “If Sharks Disappeared,” at Slackwood Elementary in Lawrence Township, N.J. on May 31, 2023. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Liwacz reads her first grade class a book called “If Sharks Disappeared,” at Slackwood Elementary in Lawrence Township, N.J. on May 31, 2023. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Liwacz reads her first grade class a book called “If Sharks Disappeared,” at Slackwood Elementary in Lawrence Township, N.J. on May 31, 2023. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Liwacz reads her first grade class a book called “If Sharks Disappeared,” at Slackwood Elementary in Lawrence Township, N.J. on May 31, 2023. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Liwacz reads her first grade class a book called “If Sharks Disappeared,” at Slackwood Elementary in Lawrence Township, N.J. on May 31, 2023. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialA fisherman feeds whale sharks in Tan-Awan, a small town in Cebu, Philippines, on Sept. 30, 2021. Hand-feeding keeps the gentle giants around for the benefit of tourists, a practice denounced by conservationists. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times)
EditorialA life-size model of the head of a megalodon, a prehistoric predator referred to as the Tyrannosaurus rex of the seas, in the “Sharks” exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Dec. 10, 2021. (An Rong Xu/The New York Times)
EditorialSwimming with whale sharks in the waters around Tan-Awan, a small town in Cebu Province in the Philippines, in September 2021. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times)
EditorialSwimming with whale sharks in the waters around Tan-Awan, a small town in Cebu Province in the Philippines, in September 2021. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times)
EditorialA lifeguard at Jones Beach on Long Island in New York raises a red flag to indicate “no swimming” after a shark sighting on Aug. 9, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialThe “hydro pod” that Reza Baluchi washed ashore in on Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Palm Coast, Fla. (Flagler County Sheriff’s Office via The New York Times)
EditorialZion Graham, 8, left, plays sharks and minnows with classmates during summer school at Hunter Elementary in Greensboro, N.C., July 19, 2021. (Cornell Watson/The New York Times)