On a planet plagued by war, disease and social upheaval, many merfolk have found life in the water a refuge. Perhaps Sebastian, the ornery crab in the 1989 film “The Little Mermaid,” said it best in ...

With documented swimming speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, mako sharks represent the world’s fastest elasmobranch species.

Megalodon have always been compared to the modern great white shark. Scientists have found a reason why it shouldn't be.

“We could see these tentacles moving,” she added in a March 20 interview with The New York Times.

Teeth from sharks and rays can be used to study their diet, but one of the biggest challenges in shark science is collecting ...

Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms.

Florida researchers have identified a record-breaking great white shark as it is tracked down Florida's coastline ahead of ...

An aquarium in southern China is on the radar for displaying a robotic whale shark instead of a live one. It has sparked a heated debate around the well-being of animals and consumer rights.

Normally, an animal can’t grow so old. Over time, declining bodily functions and illnesses like cancer accumulate and take their toll. Yet the Greenland shark seems to defy this pattern ...

A tiny shark species dating back hundreds of millions of years has been identified at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the National Park Service announced Monday. The identification was ...

What’s more, he and his coauthors posit that megalodon was slenderer than previously thought, closer in build to a sleek lemon shark than a ... as big as a stocky animal can be and still move ...