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,...
Scientists from the United States have described a new sawshark species from off the Philippine Islands.
Pristiophorus lanae. Image credit: David Ebert.
Sawsharks...
A team of genetic researchers from Cornell University and Nova Southeastern University have discovered that many of the great white shark’s (Carcharodon...
Ichthyologists have discovered a new species of scalloped hammerhead shark off the South Carolina coast.
The Carolina hammerhead, Sphyrna gilberti. Image...
Dr Gerald Allen, a research associate at the Western Australian Museum, and his colleagues from Australia have described a new species of shark from eastern...
Pelagic thresher sharks use tail-slaps as a hunting strategy, according to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.
Thresher shark at...
European paleontologists have described a new species of spiny shark that lived about 408 million years ago during the Devonian period.
Machaeracanthus...
A study of Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) published in the journal PLoS ONE has revealed that the Moon, water temperature and even time...
An analysis of weapons made from shark teeth and used by 19th century residents of the Gilbert Islands (Republic of Kiribati, Central Pacific) has revealed...
A new research led by marine scientists at the Michigan State University has confirmed the shark specimen caught in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011 was a bull...
Shark biologists have announced the discovery of two sharks never seen before in Australian waters.
Mandarin dogfish, Cirrhigaleus barbifer (OpenCage.info...
An international team of paleontologists has solved some of the mysteries surrounding large spiral fossils of an ancient fish called Helicoprion.
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Tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old fossilized shark feces provide the earliest known evidence of intestinal parasites in vertebrates.
Left: a...
Paleontologists from the University of Florida have identified an ancient intermediate form of the white shark, which shows present-day white shark likely...
A team of German scientists has analyzed the structure of shark teeth and human teeth. The results of their research are surprising: although the surface...
Re-analysis of the braincase of Acanthodes bronni has revealed that this 290-million-year-old fossil fish resembled a shark.
The fossilized braincase...
