Melissa Laurino, the center's research director and naturalist, said scientists consider megalodons the largest carnivorous ...

It was a jaw-some find. A massive tooth from a prehistoric megalodon — the largest shark to ever live, popularized in horror ...

An international scientific team has identified fossilized shark teeth in the phosphate deposits of Khouribga that point to a previously unknown extinct shark species that lived at the end of the age ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability. This has been the assumption of an old debate on whether species' age plays ...

How many sharks should a coral reef have? It sounds like a simple question, but almost nowhere on Earth is there a reef that has not at some time been fished or otherwise affected by humans, so there ...

The ocean covers about 70% of Earth, and beneath the surface have lived some of the largest and most mysterious creatures to ...

Ashley Paul joined the WJZ team in December 2024 as a reporter, and could not be happier to call Charm City home! Ashley has told stories all across the country, including in Maine, Central ...

About the only thing cooler in artist Ray Troll's eyes than a shark is an ancient shark, the species that went extinct millions of years ago.

New assessments by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show 316 chondrichthyan species – sharks, rays and skates, and chimaeras – are now threatened with extinction. “These ...