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Plants & Animals May 10, 2021

Fossil of ancient squid eating a crustacean while being eaten by an ancient shark

A team of researchers has discovered a fossil they are describing as a leftover fall event in which one creature was in the process of eating another creature that was not consumed. In their paper published in the Swiss Journal ...

Plants & Animals Jan 29, 2024

First-ever sighting of a live newborn great white may help solve longstanding mystery in shark science

Great whites, the largest predatory sharks in the world with the most fatal attacks on humans, are tough to imagine as newborn babies. That is partially because no one has seen one in the wild, it seems, until now.

Plants & Animals Jun 7, 2020

Great white shark diet surprises scientists

The first-ever detailed study of the diets of great white sharks off the east Australian coast reveals this apex predator spends more time feeding close to the seabed than expected.

Paleontology & Fossils Apr 16, 2021

'Godzilla' shark discovered in New Mexico gets formal name

The 300-million-year-old shark's teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species.

Ecology Dec 8, 2016

Shark's 8,500-mile odyssey ends on a NC fisherman's hook

A mako shark caught by commercial fishermen off North Carolina traveled more than 8,500 miles after a tracking device was attached 18 months earlier, an ocean research group says.

Paleontology & Fossils Jun 7, 2021

School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate

A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65 feet, nearly the length of two school buses. Earlier studies had ball-parked ...

Plants & Animals Oct 9, 2022

Clip provides first proof of orcas killing white sharks

Scientists have published new findings confirming that orcas hunt great white sharks, after the marine mammal was captured on camera killing one of the world's largest sea predators.

Plants & Animals Oct 5, 2020

Body size of the extinct megalodon indeed off the charts in the shark world

A new study shows that the body size of the iconic gigantic or megatooth shark megalodon, about 15 meters (50 feet) in length, is indeed anomalously large compared to body sizes of its relatives.

Plants & Animals Jan 25, 2016

Giant monster Megalodon sharks lurking in our oceans: be serious

The sighting of a seven-metre shark off the South Australia coast this month has excited the world's media with some making reference to the great white that featured in the classic 1975 film Jaws.

Archaeology Jul 4, 2021

The City of David and the sharks' teeth mystery

Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be noneā€”in a 2900 year old site in the City of David in Jerusalem. This is at least 80 km from where these fossils would ...

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