A robotic camera sent to the seafloor off southern Australia discovered thousands of sleeping sharks so tightly packed that they resembled “a carpet” hundreds of feet in size, the National ...

The footage begins when Ryan first notices the shark, then continues for just over 8 minutes as the shark circles overhead.

The heaviest great hammerhead shark ever recorded weighed a whopping 1280 pounds.” The great hammerhead shark is found in a ...

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment ...

Scientists have explored how changes in sea surface temperatures during the Cretaceous influenced the diversification and ...

An ocean expedition to a dynamic marine realm off the little-explored Chilean coast — with seeps and vents emitting nutrients ...

“Tiger!” he yelled, pointing. He rushed to suit up and then jumped in with a crate of mackerel to begin feeding the shark on the seafloor—in part to occupy it while the rest of us entered ...

Translated to hunting, a shark can sense a prey in turbid water or buried beneath the seafloor by electrical sense alone. Hearing provides another cue. Sounds of struggling fish attract sharks.

Rather than having just a few sets of teeth that last all their life, sharks are continually producing new teeth. As an older one breaks or wears down, it simply falls out of the front of the mouth ...

Found off New Zealand, the species adds crucial knowledge about this little-known and odd-looking group of deep-sea fish ...

The characteristic hammers on the shark's head probably have several functions. They are used to pick up the electrical signatures of their favoured prey - stingrays - on the sea floor ...

The shark had disappeared everywhere else ... Swimming along a 50-meter tape measure laid along the seafloor, he counted every rainbow wrasse, painted comber and other vibrant fish he could ...