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Yet, despite being made of highly mineralized phosphates and highly adapted to slicing and gnashing, shark teeth are ...
Learn more about ghost sharks’ bizarre forehead teeth that make them one of the most biologically unique animals on Earth.
The crumbling teeth are just one more way that climate change is messing with sharks.
Sharks are known for their razor-sharp teeth, but a new study warns that rising ocean acidity could leave even the sea’s fiercest predators with weaker, more brittle bites. At the heart of the problem ...
Researchers say the tenaculum helps males grasp females during reproduction, acting like the mouth full of teeth that other ...
Ghost sharks have evolved rows of true teeth on a bizarre forehead rod used for mating. Fossil and genetic evidence revealed ...
Over the last century, the rapid increase of carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere thanks to the combustion of fossil fuels has led to an observed increase in acidity and surface temperature ...
A crew of Newfoundland fishers pulled up their nets in Back Bay Harbor near St. George on Sunday to discover a very unusual catch: A massive shark, estimated to weigh more than 1,000 pounds. "First ...
If you've ever heard of the famous film about a shark, called Jaws... It probably would've been less scary, if it had been called Gums instead. It might sound funny, but new research suggests sharks ...
Scientists studied how the sea creatures, also known as chimaeras or ghost sharks, ended up with one of evolution’s most ...
Male "ghost sharks"—eerie deep-sea fish known as chimaeras that are related to sharks and rays—have a strange rod jutting ...