A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long before the famous Megalodon ever evolved. By pushing the origin of giant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painted reconstruction of a bluntnose six-gill shark (or cow shark) scavenging on a tiny extinct right whale carcass during the ...

Fossils of an ancient shark species have been discovered in a Kentucky cave, officials announced during Shark Week. The Discovery Channel isn’t the only one educating shark lovers this week. Mammoth ...

Rediscovered megalodon vertebrae from Denmark, with individual bones measuring approximately 23 cm in diameter, have allowed ...

A set of giant Megalodon vertebrae that vanished for decades has been rediscovered in Denmark, confirming that this prehistoric shark may have reached at least 79 feet in length.

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work in Palaeogeography, ...

Fossils have a way of captivating everyone, no matter their profession or the species unearthed, but there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth ...

Most kids have a natural curiosity about sharks − especially their sharp and abundant teeth. Our team had the idea to use the appeal of this charismatic apex predator to teach how scientists use ...

Six fossilized great white shark teeth have been found on Narragansett Town Beach in Rhode Island within a year. The Atlantic Shark Institute is encouraging the public to report any further ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Maryland man building a home addition unearthed a 15-million-year-old fossil of a snaggletooth shark, the first of its kind ever found, the Calvert Marine Museum said on ...

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments have done exactly that, preserving a moment of violence from roughly five ...