The dwarf lanternshark was discovered decades ago by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s research vessel Oregon. The discovery (along with a second species of lanternshark) was published in a 1985 ...

We’ve all heard of the world’s most massive sharks, both past and present. The megalodon, the great white shark, and the whale shark get most of the attention, but did you know that there are a ...

Learn how Indigenous knowledge and modern science reveal the rare cookiecutter shark, which hunts on moonless nights.

Cookiecutter sharks small but fearless; attacks still rare. July 6, 2011 — -- A small shark that's as nasty as it is fearless, attacking everything from Navy submarines to killer whales, has been ...

Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark size spectrum to look at the world’s largest fish. The whale shark is ...

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (WABC) -- There was some excitement on Coney Island Saturday when people spotted a small shark swimming along the shore. Lifeguards cleared the water because there were swimmers ...

In the '70s, when Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg first dreamed up Jaws and the shark that haunts our collective nightmares, they imagined a great white shark on steroids. The killer shark in ...

Introducing the glow in the dark pocket shark. No, it isn’t a new toy from Mattel or Disney’s next cartoon character. It’s a real live species discover in the Gulf of Mexico! This incredibly tiny ...