Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss stand next to a giant man-eating great white from the movie Jaws. (Photo copyright Universal ...

Despite what you may think, shark attacks are actually very rare. In 2013, the U.S. saw a grand total of 53 unprovoked shark attacks, with only two of those reports resulting in a fatality. The truth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For millennia – well, maybe not quite that long; but most definitely in recent decades – surfers and swimmers have been trying ...

(via PBS Eons) Long before the rise of the great whites and hammerheads we know today, sharks and their cartilaginous relatives ruled Earth’s oceans and rivers in astonishing variety. It was the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A recent study suggests that male ghost sharks, also known as chimaeras, use an unusual organ for mating – sharp teeth that grow out on their foreheads. Unlike other sharks and rays, ghost sharks do ...

Previous research has suggested that Greenland sharks had impaired vision, so Fogg wasn’t expecting to discover anything ...