Side view of a great white shark with highlighted skin sampling locations, showing detailed denticles captured by a microfocus X-ray CT scanner. New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could ...

At first glance, sharks and nuclear power seem to have nothing in common. But recently, researchers at Polytechnique Montréal (Montreal, QC, Canada) were inspired by shark gills to invent a biomimetic ...

How can a creature of such enormous size and long-distance migratory behavior cope with a spine twisted in multiple directions? (Whale shark with the spinal deformity not pictured.) Photo by Jenna ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...