Researchers with the University of Auckland recently witnessed an extraordinary scene in which a mako shark appears to be ...

A shortfin mako shark, the fastest-swimming shark in the world, was caught on camera with an octopus catching a ride on its back off the coast of New Zealand.

The mysterious Greenland shark has an unusually long lifespan, and scientists are beginning to think they finally know why.

A rare beetle might be extinct in England after a survey failed to confirm any sightings, a charity said. Conservation charity Buglife asked for the public's help last year to find evidence of the ...

Deep within Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time ...

"Welcome to the Black Triangle," said paleobiologist Cindy Looy as our van slowed to a stop in the gentle hills of the northern Czech Republic, a few miles from the German and Polish borders.

Policy simulations showed that retention bans could reduce shark mortality three-fold, on average, but that this wasn’t enough to reduce mortality to sustainable fishing levels for already heavily ...

Its identity as the “shark with the buzzsaw jaw” highlights the array of adaptations nature has crafted. The peculiar yet fascinating predator remains a testament to the endless possibilities of ...