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, ...

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A graveyard studded with thousands of shark teeth is lurking nearly 3.5 miles (5.400 kilometers) beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean. Researchers made the shocking discovery in October during a ...

“With their whole genomes deciphered at high resolution we have a much better window into the evolutionary history of these endangered species,” says Dr. Mahmood Shivji, professor of marine science at ...

In this video, my friend Cris and myself hit a creek here in North Florida for a short time to hunt for some fossils! The summer heat is still brutal, but fossils are always worth it. We ended up ...

Tina Fey probably did not have rescuing a shark on her beach vacation itinerary, but that’s exactly what happened when the Texas resident and others were swimming in the Gulf on Thursday. Fey shot ...