An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and dinosaur-era origins reveal how early seas shaped survival across mass extinctions.

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors. Long before forests reshaped Earth’s ...

Quick Take Large-body sharks in the Lamniformes family appeared 15 million years earlier than science previously claimed.

Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its story begins on a rocky shoreline near Darwin, where a few heavy disks of ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

Celebrate Shark Week by meeting some of the prehistoric sharks prowling the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea For nearly half a billion years, sharks of all shapes and sizes have ruled the deep, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – It’s Shark Week, and News 2 is talking with shark advocates and experts from the Lowcountry. Today, we hear from Ashby Gale, the chief paleontologist at Charleston Fossil ...

Sharks continually shed teeth throughout their lives, contributing to abundant fossil records. The Wilmington area is a hotspot for shark teeth due to favorable geological conditions. Shark teeth ...