Sharks are some of the most fearsome predators in the ocean, but did you know they have a secret superpower? Unlike humans, ...

Small organisms such as plankton get stuck in their gill rakers and the shark then consumes the food. Filter-feeding sharks include whale sharks, megamouth sharks and basking sharks. These species ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

A 6.2-metre-long whale shark swimming at around one metre per second would be able to filter about 614,000 litres of sea water per hour. Despite not needing razor-sharp teeth for cutting and tearing ...

it’s possible they occasionally bit into each other’s teeth by mistake. This type of accidental contact is seen in modern sharks, particularly around whale carcasses where multiple individuals ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways, the ...

Some paleontologists have used teeth or the vertebral columns of ... The largest living sharks, such as the whale shark and basking shark, have slimmer body plans which grant the giants greater ...

While fans of the movie and novel “Jaws” might envision an encounter with a 22-foot great white shark as being daunting, ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...