When "Jaws" first aired, scientists didn't know how long sharks took to reproduce, or how many offspring a white shark could have each year. We now know it takes about 26 years fo ...

These are some of the coolest extinct sharks we’d love to see at the Jurassic World aquarium. Extinct sharks that would look great in a Jaws or Jurassic World movie.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then ...

The extinct Otodus megalodon, or “megalodon,” remains an iconic apex predator, known for its massive size and fearsome teeth.

Gigantic extinct sharks have something to tell us from millions of years ago, ... so she’s spent over ten years taking online classes and reading paleontological books and scientific papers.

“To maintain that regional endothermy, the shark just had to keep eating more and more,” said Phillip Sternes, a shark researcher at the University of California at Riverside. He researches why ...

Through many of Earth’s mass extinction events, these finned predators have endured. The K–T extinction that annihilated the dinosaurs only wiped out about 30 percent of sharks.. But a study published ...

Extinct Megalodon Sharks Gorged on Prey the Size of Killer Whales Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

After Dinosaurs Went Extinct, These Ten Giant Creatures Roamed the Earth Though we often think of the “terrible lizards” as behemoths, many later reptiles and mammals also grew to massive sizes ...

Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five bites: A new study suggests the extinct shark known as a megalodon was an even more impressive superpredator than ...

Sharks come in all shapes and sizes. The minuscule dwarf lantern shark is the smallest shark alive, being smaller than the human hand, according to Smithsonian. The aptly named megamouth can weigh ...