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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 250 years, scientists only had strange folded teeth to guess what this prehistoric shark was. New fossils from Mexico finally reveal that Ptychodus was a massive mackerel shark, built ...

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 ...

Quick Take New vertebrate fossils reveal a more ancient mega-shark years before Megalodon This mega-shark was found in ...