A hunt gone wrong! Artistic reconstruction of Otodus megalodon feeding upon an ancient swordfish ~11 – 3.7 million years ago. A puncture injury to the…
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Blue Shark Pet owners may unknowingly be feeding their pets with meat from endangered shark species, shows a new study published in Frontiers in Marine…
Reconstruction of a full-scale Megalodon and a set of teeth at the Museo de la Evolución de Puebla in Mexico. Credit: Luis Alvaz Extinct shark’s…
Artist’s illustration of the Megalodon. However, new scientific research shows that no one knows what the Megalodon really looked like. Latest study reveals no one…
A new study finds that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted finfish. Credit: NOAA Fisheries LED illuminated…
In a new study, Neil Hammerschlag, Ph.D., and colleagues used multiple approaches to evaluate the effects of ocean warming on tiger shark movements in the…
New shark-vision models show that many shark bites by great whites may be a case of mistaken identity, as surfing and swimming humans on the…
New research indicates that baited shark diving can influence tiger shark social behavior. Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric…
Selective extinction of apex predators suggests a shift to more generalist diets. A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all…
A speckle-skinned whale shark swimming through the ocean. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with footage from Alexpunker via Motion Array and Tom Cook. While…
96% of shark movies overtly portray sharks as a threat to humans. Undeniably the shark movie to end all shark movies, the 1975 blockbuster, Jaws,…
A tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) swimming at the surface with a biologging package attached to dorsal fin. This package records temperature, swimming speed, depth, body…
Artist’s impression of a Squalicorax shark. Credit: Dimitri Bogdanov Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should…
In a new study, an international team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes a fossil skeleton of an ancient shark, which…
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65…
A new study by Earth scientists from Yale and the College of the Atlantic has turned up a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million…
A new study has turned up a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago. The biggest shark attack in history did not involve…
A baby bamboo shark born via artificial insemination. Credit: Photo by Jay Harvey, Aquarium of the Pacific It’s a tough time to be a shark.…
Artist’s impression showing one eagle shark. Credit: © Oscar Sanisidro Introducing a “bizarre” shark from the Late Cretaceous that, more than 66 million years ago,…