These big babies can outweigh several of the most popular small car models. In fact, these titanic infants are the largest ...

A new genomic study of Greenland sharks has revealed how they have one of the longest lifespans among animals, spanning centuries, without developing any tumors. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed ...

Australian authorities have identified the man eaten by a “massive shark” while wading in chest-deep water Monday afternoon. Steven Jeffrey Payne, 37, was “spotted in distress” by several ...

There are growing fears the body of a surfer who was dragged away by a shark may never be found after police reviewed drone footage of the gruesome incident. Steven Jeffrey Payne, 37, from ...

creating a ‘whale fall’ — an event that supports entire deep-sea communities. Scavengers like sharks, hagfish, and deep-sea invertebrates feast on the remains, recycling nutrients back into ...

A woman has watched in horror as her partner was mauled by a shark in chest-deep water off a Western Australian beach. The man in his 30s was surfing off the coast of Wharton Beach in Cape Le ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

The new findings help explain why other enormous marine creatures such as whale sharks, basking sharks, and whales also tend to have more streamlined physiques: carrying around an overly bulky ...

The shorter, stockier shape of the white shark is built for short bursts of speed; the longer, sleeker bodies of lemon sharks, whale sharks, and whales are better for more energy-efficient swimming, ...

The Megalodon - which swam the seas roughly 15 to 3.6 million years ago - was a longer beast than previously thought, a study reveals.

Paleobiology professor Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University led the study along with 28 other shark, fossil, and vertebrate anatomy experts ... such as the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and basking ...

The largest living sharks, such as the whale shark and basking shark, have slimmer body plans which grant the giants greater hydrodynamic efficiency as they ply through the ocean. But if you were ...