A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

It's not Shark Week yet, but National Megalodon Day is the next best thing until the Discovery Channel kicks off its shark love fest on July 20. National Megalodon Day is June 15 and celebrates the ...

Any self-respecting prehistoric theme park would most certainly ... Xenacanthus was a 3-to-5-foot freshwater shark which fed ...

Artist’s rendering of the prehistoric spike-toothed salmon. It was originally thought that these fish had fang-like teeth. Claeson et al., PLOS ONE 2024), CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org ...

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived – Otodus megalodon – fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top, as an ...

One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.

Prehistoric shark teeth found in limestone formations in north Alabama and in a cave in Kentucky led to the discovery of two new ancient species of the predatory fish. The sharks, Troglocladodus ...

Well, the bowmouth guitarfish has gills on the underside, a dead giveaway that this is a species of ray, though it is often called a shark ray. Their heads are covered in bony, pointed growths ...

This was a discovery they could really sink their teeth into. A rare smalltooth sawfish, considered a “prehistoric” shark relative with an eye-popping 32 teeth affixed to its exterior, was ...

Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth's history. Measuring up to 24 meters, it was longer than a truck with a trailer and weighed almost twice as much. Embedded in its jaws were ...