The eerie movie Jaws (1975) by Steven Spielberg was inspired by the dreadful reputation of the great white shark. It is the ...

In the scorching desert of Peru's Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the nearly complete fossil of a colossal shark that prowled the ancient seas some ...

An Australian fossil reveals the first lamniform shark, measuring 20 feet long and living 15 million years earlier than believed.

The fossil of a huge great white shark relative that lived among the dinosaurs has been discovered in Mexico. The discovery was made in a limestone quarry to the country's northeast by an ...

While movie megalodon is heightened for entertainment, the real thing was still huge. Megalodon was a white or mackerel shark, related to today’s great white shark. Some believe the whale shark is ...

Researchers studying sharks in the northwest Atlantic recently spotted a shape that temporarily led them to believe the extinct megalodon shark was still swimming in the deeps. The Atlantic Shark ...

Though the last of the megalodons died around 2.6 million years ago, people have often wondered whether the big-toothed beasts still live on the murky sea bottom. There’s no evidence they do. But ...

A look at Chip Michalove’s boat on Friday, Jan. 18 off the Hilton Head coast. Captain Marc Pincus doesn’t think sharks get enough credit. “They are smart,” Pincus said. “They adapt.” The owner of ...

A fisherman hooked into a huge king mackerel off the pier on Pawleys Island in South Carolina, but before he could land it, the tax man paid a visit. In this instance, the tax man was a big bull shark ...

The largest shark alive today, reaching up to 20 meters long, is the whale shark, a sedate filter feeder. As recently as 4 million years ago, however, sharks of that scale likely included the ...