While the non-avian dinosaurs are long gone, sharks are still going strong. They’ve been around longer than trees (which first appeared about 400 million years ago), longer than the rings of Saturn ...

A shark expert, whose own curiosity about these fascinating fish was sparked by the movie "Jaws," explains some of their ...

They say that the length of Megalodon has been estimated at approximately 50 feet—dwarfing modern great white sharks that grow to a maximum length of about 15 feet. While they were gone from the sea 3 ...

As a group, sharks and their cartilaginous fish relatives – including skates, rays and chimaeras – are evolutionary relics that have inhabited the Earth’s oceans for over 400 million years.

Sharks have been around for 400 million years. Given that they have been around longer than dinosaurs, it would make sense that there would be fossils of these creatures, both massive and smaller ...

The Mosura fentoni, or "sea moth," is a newly discovered type of arthropod that would have lived in the deep sea more than 500 million years ago.