Without any eyelids for protection, whale sharks need to get creative. They have "armored eyes" covered in teeth and can retract their eyeballs into the sockets. Judge warns of consequences if ...

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it’s possible they occasionally bit into each other’s teeth by mistake. This type of accidental contact is seen in modern sharks, particularly around whale carcasses where multiple individuals ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

While fans of the movie and novel “Jaws” might envision an encounter with a 22-foot great white shark as being daunting, ...

Because the megalodon's triangular, serrated-edge teeth look much like those ... Shimada's team noted that existing gigantic sharks – namely the whale shark and basking shark – have relatively ...

The clicking behaviour has been described in the new study as the first documented case of a shark deliberately making sound ...