VENICE, Fla. - A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she's been ...

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New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal shark that lived 115 million years ago, long before Megalodon. Using rare fossilized vertebrae and modern imaging, researchers reconstructed this ancient apex ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — One of the most fearsome predators to rule the seas millions of years ago may have left something behind at Virginia Beach’s North End. Terry Siviter and his 5-year-old grandson, ...

Christine Wusylko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF. Pavlo Antonenko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF. Most kids have a natural ...

VENICE, Fla. (WFLA) — Venice is known as the shark tooth capital of the world. People come from near and far to try and find shark teeth, and some have been lucky enough to find fossils that are ...

It’s a sought after coastal souvenir, one that has beachgoers stooped over scanning the sand for the black, triangular shape that is the shark’s tooth. Social media is filled with Facebook groups ...

Shark tooth fossils in sandstone matrix, Lamna obliqua, Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago), Morocco, (Specimen courtesy of Ron Stebler, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA), (Photo by Wild ...

Tom Pierce’s hands move with precision as he wraps each black shark’s tooth with wire, laying them in a row on the glass counter. The process only takes a few minutes to create each piece of jewelry, ...

Sharks may be losing their deadly bite due to climate change, according to a new study. The apex predators’ razor sharp teeth are being destroyed by ocean acidification, say scientists. Researchers ...

Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark size spectrum to look at the world’s largest fish. The whale shark is ...