Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

Since the Earth began, it has been home to millions of species that modern day humans would struggle to comprehend.

More than 70 shark and ray species have been given new international trade protections after concerns over their populations ...

"Undoing all of this evolutionary work." Researchers discover concerning phenomenon while studying sharks: 'We lose in basically every way' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A shark so rare it was once thought to be extinct was just spotted off the Welsh coast. The Wildlife Trust of Wales captured footage of the angel shark in Cardigan Bay, the first documented sighting ...

If you ever come face-to-face with the wrong kind of shark, there's something you probably want to avoid. Just a hint: ...

It remains a sad fact of this world that we will never know for certain what the long-lost megalodon truly looked like – but a new study gives us what may be the most accurate reconstruction yet. An ...

15 million years before movies like Jaws and Open Water gave swimmers the heebie-jeebies, a prehistoric shark species called Otodus megalodon reached gargantuan sizes. Researchers have reassessed just ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree. This illustration of megalodon may be wrong. The ancient predatory ...

CITES CoP20 has agreed new international trade protections for sharks and rays.Proposals up for consideration for Parties at ...