A large deep-water fish that was previously identified in the Southeastern Pacific has recently been found around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast...
Fossilized teeth from a newly identified species of extinct shark that lived 20 million years ago (early Miocene) were found in the mid-latitudinal zones...
Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) live at least as long as 400 years, according to a team of marine biologists led by Dr. Julius Nielsen from...
Sharks of the same species can have different personalities, indicates a new study published in the Journal of Fish Biology.
Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus...
Marine scientists have found that biofluorescent catsharks, such as the swell shark from the eastern Pacific and the chain catshark from the western Atlantic,...
A shape-shifting frog from Ecuador, a giant virus from Siberia, and a bioluminescent shark are among the twenty most bizarre species discovered in the...
A new species of bioluminescent shark has been described from eight specimens collected off the Pacific coast of Central America at depths ranging between...
Paleontologist Prof. Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University and his colleagues have discovered a new genus of extinct planktivorous (plankton-eating) sharks.
Pseudomegachasma...
Three large vertebrae, believed to be that of an ancient, gigantic shark, have been discovered in Texas by members of the Paleontology Club of the University...
Marine biologists have discovered what they say is the second specimen ever found of the pocket shark (Mollisquama parini).
A specimen of the pocket shark...
Carcharocles megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived on Earth, became extinct approximately 2.6 million years ago, according to a new analysis of...
A new study, led by Dr David Jacoby of the Institute of Zoology in London, UK, has shown for the first time that the fearsome predators of the deep blue...
Paleontologist Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester’s School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and his colleagues from the United...
According to a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, the eyes of mesopelagic bioluminescent sharks have a higher rod density when compared to other...
A new study on the teeth of extinct sand tiger sharks Striatolamia macrota and Carcharias spp. has provided the first estimate of Eocene (50 million years...
Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History have described a shark species that lived during Carboniferous period, about 325 million years...
According to paleontologists from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, long-extinct Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater...
A large group of genetic scientists has sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii).
The elephant shark, Callorhinchus...
Sci-News.com presents some of the best species officially described in 2013. A walking shark, a snail with semi-transparent shell, a venomous crustacean,...
