Any self-respecting prehistoric theme park would most certainly feature an aquatic exhibit filled with weird sharks. Modern sharks are the result of 450 million years of evolution, honing them into ...

Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

An almost complete skeleton of a Cretaceous shark has been uncovered in Mexico. The find sheds light on what the prehistoric relative of the great white looked like.

A program set out to identify Mammoth Park's collection of shark fossils uncovered two new ancient shark species in the massive Kentucky cave.

Ever since Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” hit theaters 50 years ago—June 20, 1975, to be exact—we’ve been afraid to go into the ...

Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree.

An almost complete skeleton of a Cretaceous shark has been uncovered in Mexico. The find sheds light on what the prehistoric relative of the great white looked like.

Ancient relative of the great white shark Most species of Ptychodus lived between 100 and 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. The deposits in which the fossils were discovered ...