Even without ‘Jaws,’ people have this fascination and fear of sharks. That’s why it’s important they know these animals are ...

Marie Temara, a social media influencer from Miami, Florida was holidaying in the Bahamas when she encountered three sharks ...

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one, is a better model of the extinct megalodon's body than the great white shark. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white ...

Ahead of Shark Week 2024: A must-read on the history of the underwater predator By . Caroline Howe. Published July 6, 2024, 8:00 a.m. ET.

In reviewing a August 2022 paper, in which scientists built a digital 3D model of megalodon, Shimada found some of the math behind the shark’s proportions didn’t seem to add up.

Researchers have discovered evidence pointing to the first known case of a porbeagle shark — which can grow up to 12 feet long and 500 pounds — being killed by a large shark predator.