Maryland leaders are considering a bill that would make the extinct megalodon the official state shark.

Australia has just mapped 158 Important Shark and Ray Areas across its waters, identifying the habitats most critical to the ...

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- If you ever come face-to-face with the wrong kind of shark, there's something you probably want to avoid. Just a hint: they're long and really sharp. But now, researchers at ...

Maryland could soon have a state shark. The massive predator’s fossilized teeth can still be found around the state.

Endangered dusky shark Mira was tracked off the Gulf Coast on March 10, just about 60 miles west of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Italian naturalist, Camilo Ranzani's original 1840 illustration of Carcharhinus porosus, known as the smalltail shark, taken from the Center For Biological Diversity's suit filed in Feb. 2025 against ...

The beast belongs to an extremely rare species of shark that, while once thought of as harmless, killed a snorkeler in Israel ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida (THE CONVERSATION) The world’s oceans are home ...

The extinction clock has been ticking for a shark that calls the Gulf of Mexico home. Fortunately, an agreement struck last week could at least slow the clock's movement, or just make more people ...