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

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

Ron Tatum, executive director of Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services, will step down from his role in early July.

They move slowly, live deep below the surface, and some of them have been alive since before the Industrial Revolution. […] ...

The largest shark to ever live was likely the mighty megalodon ( Otodus megalodon ), which swam in prehistoric oceans from 23 to 3.6 million years ago and is now definitely extinct. Paleontologists ...

Boy standing over a Greenland Shark at the dock. Image by Super Bomba from bklyn / syd, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Determining the age of Greenland sharks presented scientists with a unique ...

The Greenland Shark is nowhere near as well-known as the Great White, but it ought to be. This shark species doesn’t wow us with its predatory skills (although it does have a bit of a funny way of ...

How to catch an enormous Greenland shark. In 2021, Arne Sahm decided to hunt for clues behind the sharks’ long life; not just to learn about the shark, but also to potentially compare them to ...

Scientists have uncovered new genetic clues behind the extraordinary lifespan of the Greenland shark, a species that can live for up to 400 years. Researchers from the University of Tokyo have ...