A shark so rare it was once thought to be extinct was just spotted off the Welsh coast. The Wildlife Trust of Wales captured footage of the angel shark in Cardigan Bay, the first documented sighting ...

For decades, the giant prehistoric shark known ominously as “The Meg" has been portrayed as a massive apex predator that hunted the only formidable opponent in the oceans at the time: whales. But new ...

As Earth shifts to climates not seen for several hundred thousand years, we may need to look at ancient environments for clues about what could happen next. Our new study of two whale fossils, with ...

Otodus megalodon, the biggest shark of all time, has long captured the imaginations of paleontologists and the public alike. Scientific fascination spawns from the sheer enormity of their fossilized ...

In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous ...

Analyzing over 9,000 fossil shark teeth reveals that today’s sharks occupy less ecological space than their ancient counterparts. (Maggie Martorell/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) ...

FRANKFURT. Professor Enrico Schleiff, President of Goethe University, congratulated the two researchers: “The research projects of Jeremy McCormack and Andrei Kuzhelev are impressive examples of how ...