Imagine walking through a bustling aquarium, surrounded by the vibrant life of the sea. You pause in front of a tank filled ...

Imagine swimming in the deep blue, shadows gliding effortlessly beneath you—sleek, powerful, and mysterious. The ocean’s most ...

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed. But what did they evolve from, are they ‘living fossils’, and how did they survive ...

The first sharks on Earth: Ancient relatives of sharks first appeared in the world's oceans about 400 million years ago. Today, sharks are classified among the elasmobranchs, which also includes ...

The only part of a shark's skeleton not made of cartilage is their teeth, which they're famous for. Since cartilage is softer than bone and teeth, it doesn’t fossilise very well. But we’ve learned a ...

These discoveries, often made under challenging conditions, shed light on the evolution of sharks and ancient marine ecosystems. Researchers sometimes have to crawl long distances through narrow ...