For a shark that vanishes almost as quickly as it appears, the great white has left behind a surprisingly messy family ...

Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its story begins on a rocky shoreline near Darwin, where a few heavy disks of ...

In some circles, Arkansas is known for its sharks. Their fossilized remains are embedded in the Fayetteville Shale, which was once a muddy sea floor. These well-preserved fossils prompted one ...

During the Cretaceous Period, a genus of sharks roamed the sea with rows of unusual teeth. Mostly large and rounded, these chompers were not meant to slice through their prey, but to grind and crush ...

Researchers have uncovered the fossilized teeth of ancient shark species at Mammoth Cave. Groundbreaking discoveries are nothing new for Mammoth Cave, but here’s one you may not suspect. Buried for ...

Learn more about the ancient life that used to inhabit Mammoth Cave, and how the cave conditions were just right to help ...

The fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of paleontological inquiry, a comprehensive look at the ancient fish has been hard to come by. Until now ...