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 ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

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, ...

You‘ll never guess how big this creature is. The great white shark in Jaws (1975), allegedly 25 feet long and weighing three tons, unleashed a deep-seated fear of the fish among moviegoers. But are ...

Before scientists shed light on what they were, teeth that washed up on ocean shores were often mistaken for dragon teeth. It ...

A fossilised tooth from a previously unknown ancient shark species, estimated to be around 340 million years old, has been discovered in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, the world's largest cave ...

One of a blacktip reef sharks’ top teeth as seen under a scanning electron microscope. CREDIT: Maximilian Baum (HHU) / Steffen Köhler (HHU). Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

Megalodons were the biggest sharks on the planet. Recent studies show how these apex predators reached lengths of 50 feet with heads the size of cars.

Sharks continually shed teeth throughout their lives, contributing to abundant fossil records. The Wilmington area is a hotspot for shark teeth due to favorable geological conditions. Shark teeth ...