Analysis of the skeleton and its lack of teeth has indicated that Dave was a kind of basking or filter-feeder shark, perhaps similar to modern-day whale sharks.

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 ...

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 ...

Learn more about 'sharkitecture' and how a shark's strong and flexible cartilage could help create advanced materials for every day use.

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.

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 ...

Sharks have survived five mass extinctions. Discover what the first sharks were, when the megalodon first appeared, and how this group of fishes changed over 450 million years.

Now, a new fossilized fish skeleton found in China is older than the next-oldest specimen by a whopping 15 million years and is the, “oldest undisputed jawed fish.” ...

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 ...