A fight between a shark and a piranha is what one would expect to read about in a thriller novel, but not in scientific fact.

The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is among the most unusual and least understood predators in the ocean. Deep-dwelling, ...

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

For years, great white sharks were the undisputed apex predators along parts of South Africa’s coast, gathering in dense ...

Crocodiles and sharks are at the very pinnacle of the food chain, feared not only by their prey but more often than not by ...

When sharks and crocodiles meet, science shows no clear victor exists. Survival, strategy, speed and strength determine outcomes, but most encounters end with caution, retreat and evolutionary balance ...

A small bioluminescent shark so rare that there are only two specimens in the entire world has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the absence of great white sharks, copper sharks ( Carcharhinus brachyurus) are moving in to fill the vacant ecological ...

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The fossil was so complete experts could see remains of the last meal it ate, 330 million years after it died.