Frilled sharks are usually found in the deep ocean, but this one popped up in waters off Japan in 2007. | Getty Images/GettyImages Whether or not they deserve their notorious reputation, sharks are a ...

Samanthan and Jared were walking along a British beach when all of a sudden they spotted a catshark. SWNS says catsharks are common to see in the UK, regardless that’s not what Samantha and Jared ...

This important study significantly advances our understanding of the skeleton of cartilaginous fishes by using a range of state of the art and complementary approaches to compare the skeleton amongst ...

Scientists in the Azores Islands, Portugal, dropped a baited underwater camera and let it sink thousands of feet down in the Atlantic Ocean. Later, they hauled it up and reviewed the footage. To their ...

In the half a century since Jaws was released we know so much more about sharks’ amazing biology. The summer of 1975 was the summer of Jaws. To call Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece a ‘creature feature’ ...

The ocean is no doubt our planet’s last great frontier, with deep sea flora and fauna still very much a mystery to humanity. But now researchers say that after 40 years of scouring the planet’s blue ...

Lovers of our four-legged canine companions won’t be pleased to hear that in the naming of plants and animals the word ‘dog’ is used to mean something inferior. A garden rose may be an object of great ...

Scientists in Albania have confirmed the first ever case of identical twins in small spotted catsharks. In February 2024, a commercial trawler operating from Vlorë, Albania, brought up 216 dead small ...

Wimborne resident Michael Johnson found the headless body of a small-spotted catshark last week. About three feet long minus the head, the catshark is believed to have dropped from the sky by a bird ...

Samanthan and Jared were walking along a British beach when all of a sudden they spotted a catshark. SWNS says catsharks are common to see in the UK, regardless that’s not what Samantha and Jared ...

More and more new species of sharks are being discovered as humanity peers deeper into the oceans. It was a mystery that began with an egg. In 1989, scientists in Australia found a curious kind of ...

It was a mystery that began with an egg. In 1989, scientists in Australia found a curious kind of "mermaid's purse" – a leathery egg case, which some species of sharks lay instead of giving birth to ...