The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...

When and where did sharks first become so massive? The discovery of enormous shark remains from northern Australia has just ...

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

Everyone’s favorite white shark, Contender, is back on the move again, this time toward warmer seas for the winter. Contender caught attention in January, when he was tagged by nonprofit OCEARCH, off ...

It's peak bulking-up season for white sharks in Monterey Bay, and over the past week, two animals previously tagged by ...

A 13-foot great white shark said to rival "Contender" - the largest ever tracked in the Atlantic - and is gliding off the New York-New Jersey coast. Chris Fischer, founder of the marine research ...

Researchers have documented Gulf torpedo rays (Torpedo sinuspersici) using electric shocks to deter large sharks. Photograph by Andy Murch, Nature Picture Library With powerful jaws and high levels of ...

There are multiple strategies for survival in the world’s oceans. While many sharks are constantly on the hunt, snacking on every bit of bite-sized prey they can get their mouths around, great ...

"It was so much bigger than what you would expect," Kori Garza said. Earth's oceans are full of big surprises -- something Kori Garza knows better than most. The marine biologist has been on thousands ...