For more than one hundred million years, giant sharks have flicked their massive tails throughout Earth’s oceans. Some of these immense fishes have been filter-feeders, such as today’s whale, basking ...

Inside the twisting tunnels of Mammoth Cave, the world’s largest cave system, scientists have uncovered fossilized remains of two ancient shark species that once prowled Earth’s waters some 325 ...

A newly examined prehistoric shark from the age of dinosaurs provides surprising insights into the early evolution of modern sharks. It cannot be confidently assigned to any shark order that exists ...

How many sharks should a coral reef have? It sounds like a simple question, but almost nowhere on Earth is there a reef that has not at some time been fished or otherwise affected by humans, so there ...

Prehistoric sharks rise from the dead as biologists investigate the superpredators that ruled the seas. Global expeditions yield new evidence of the strangest s ...