Discover how apex predators like great whites started as slow, bottom-dwelling fish in ancient oceans, and how climate change shaped their rise.

Our analyses suggest ancient sharks were probably benthic—meaning they lived on or close to the sea floor. Pelagic sharks ...

To say sharks are ancient is a behemoth of an understatement. They evolved around 450 million years ago, before Saturn’s rings, the Pleiades cluster, too many exoplanets to name, and the North Star ...

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research indicates this underwater migration occurred in response to a permanent ...