Disneynature, the Mouse House's nature-themed label, pledged to plant a tree for every ticket purchased for Earth, its first film. So far 500,000... Gillian Taylor, former head of external ...

Imagine discovering a creature that could be as old as 500 years, swimming in the depths of the ocean. This is exactly what ...

Thomas Jane stars in the 1999 movie "Deep Blue Sea." This article will serve as your guide to that question. I’ll review the history of shark movies and the strange allure they present, the ...

A pregnant 7-foot porbeagle shark appeared to have been eaten by an even larger shark in what researchers believe is the first such evidence of the ocean hunter becoming the hunted. Researchers ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared ... by a team that included Boston College Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental ...

One such remarkable creature is the Greenland shark, whose lifespan can extend up to 500 years.The quest to understand the ...

We were quite shocked at what we saw. We really didn’t know what was going on,” Lubitz recounted. “When it spat it out, I ...

Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, says, 'Shark-like scales from the Late Ordovician have ... at the end of the Devonian killed off at least 75% of all species on Earth, including ...

Over one quarter of all known shark species are considered threatened or endangered. Sharks are apex predators in many ecosystems, and their disappearance is causing dangerous imbalances in marine ...

Measuring the Greenland shark’s growth rate is challenging because individuals are rarely recaptured. However, one shark tagged in 1936 had only grown 2.3 inches when it reappeared 16 years later.

The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

There are more viviparous shark species - which bear live young - than sharks that lay eggs. But throughout Earth's oceans, viviparity occurs in a variety of forms. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are ...