These top predators eat smaller animals, balancing the populations of fish and other marine life. For example, sharks protect ...

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

The transcriptome (or sum total of the messenger RNA) of the white shark showed greater similarity to the human transcriptome ...

Visitors will encounter nine life-sized, scientifically accurate models, including the now extinct 270-million-year-old ...

For nearly 20 million years the enormous shark dominated the oceans until becoming extinct just 3.6 million years ago. O. megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the largest ...

More than 100 million years ago, scientists say, warming seas and reduced oxygen may have sent some sharks higher into the water column, where they evolved to be fierce and hungry.