HARTFORD, Conn. — Amid increasing reports of fishermen encountering brown sharks in the Connecticut River, experts say it is a mix of both good and bad news. Dr. Eric Schultz , a University of ...

By cannibalizing their siblings in the womb or avoiding meat-eating pliosaurs, fearsome carnivores like the megalodon ballooned to proportions that would dwarf any shark alive today ...

The angel shark is a good example—once widespread throughout the northeast Atlantic, it has suffered drastic declines across its range, and the species is now locally extinct throughout much of Europe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An endangered shark species is seeing a population boom near New England beaches. The dusky shark, a species that was once hunted ...

As Earth shifts to climates not seen for several hundred thousand years, we may need to look at ancient environments for clues about what could happen next. Our new study of two whale fossils, with ...

Megalodons were massive predators that ruled the world's oceans. Hugo Saláis via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 For nearly 20 million years, megalodons prowled the world’s oceans. The massive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The extinct Megalodon, meaning "big tooth," was an apex ...

(25 March 2021) New updates on the conservation status of sharks and rays released today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show that 39 additional species are now facing a ...