News

Now, scientists are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic "sharkitecture" that helps these ancient apex predators withstand extreme physical demands of constant ...
Analyzing a Shark Skeleton An X-ray nanotomography reconstruction of the intermedial cartilage of a blacktip shark. The colors indicate the thickness of the struts, with red representing thicker areas ...
Looks like “Jaws” can get an origin story. Paleontologists discovered fossils of an ancient “shark” species now known to have swam the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago during the ...
"It is very soft, so it normally just disappears," Cuetara told CTV. "The part we normally find from the shark is the teeth, because they are the only hard part of the skeleton.But, in this case ...
An almost complete skeleton of a Cretaceous shark has been uncovered in Mexico. The find sheds light on what the prehistoric relative of the great white looked like.
The skeleton of an ancient shark that could be the first of its kind is now on display at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Man. — and it was only recently "rediscovered" after ...
“But they do have a cartilage skeleton, a shark-like skull and jaw, and at least some shark-like teeth, which were often fused together.” The first recognisable sharks By the middle of the Devonian, ...
Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists previously thought, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.
Using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing, researchers are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic ...