Love them or hate them, sharks are a vital part of the Earth's ecosystem. Here are some of the places where you may be most likely to encounter one yourself.

Greenland sharks, with lifespans of up to 400 years, are the longest-living animals on Earth. They inhabit the cold depths of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. New research reveals their ...

Greenland sharks are thought to have lifespans that can reach 400 years. Building upon previous work, University of Tokyo-led ...

Around 400 million years ago, Earth’s oceans were dominated by massive sea scorpions. Scorpions, as we know them today, are already pretty terrifying — now imagine them being larger than basketball ...

Additionally, the shark’s ability to maintain genomic stability over centuries may be attributed to a suite of enhanced DNA repair enzymes that efficiently correct errors and damage as they occur.

These elusive animals are considered the longest-living vertebrates on the planet, and they can survive to be roughly 400 ...

A genomic study may have revealed how Greenland sharks live for centuries ... maturity until they are 150 years old and their lifespan has been estimated at about 400 years, making them the ...

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when a massive asteroid ...

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs," the Mesozoic Era, which stretched from approximately 252 million years ago to 65 million years ago.

PARIS, March 9 — Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said ...