Fossil teeth of extinct megalodon sharks have grooves made by other megalodon teeth, hinting at violent encounters between ...

Some fossilized teeth from giant ancient megalodon sharks have unique scratches on them. These scratches, researchers believe ...

We mostly discover these extinct sharks through their teeth, which they grew in large numbers throughout their lives and which hold up better to time than the cartilage throughout the rest of ...

Mako sharks are the best living representation of its extinct cousin, albeit much smaller. “A mako shark would look puny next to a megalodon,” says Sues. But the fish is still large by human ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

As the adult sharks were dependent on tropical waters, the drop in ocean temperatures likely resulted in a significant loss of habitat. It may also have resulted in the megalodon's prey either going ...

As the adult sharks were dependent on tropical waters, the drop in ocean temperatures likely resulted in a significant loss of habitat. It may also have resulted in the megalodon's prey either going ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Wichita’s Exploration Place science museum has opened an acclaimed new exhibit on sharks.

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...