For a shark that vanishes almost as quickly as it appears, the great white has left behind a surprisingly messy family ...

Research has shown that pelagic sharks tend to have longer, narrower fins compared to their benthic relatives, which typically possess shorter, rounded fins. A key to understanding how sharks navigate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. © Dmitry Bogdanov / CC BY 3.0 A richly biodiverse ocean during the Late Cretaceous period ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors. Long before forests reshaped Earth’s ...

It's Shark Week, and Mammoth Cave took the unofficial holiday to announce the discovery of another new shark species. Mammoth Cave announced the discovery of the "Macadens olsoni" Thursday. The fossil ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the answer is simple: I’m astounded by the fact that I can walk along the beach in ...