Shark orders include highly specialised species such as sawsharks, angel sharks and bullhead sharks.

Lurking beneath the sand with unhinged jaws ready to fire in under a blink, angel sharks blur the line between shark and stingray in ways that challenge everything you thought you knew about ocean ...

Beneath the sun-baked sands of Egypt’s Abu-Tartur Plateau, paleontologists have unearthed fourteen fossilized shark teeth ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Florida International University (FIU) scientists have finally ...

Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on ...

A year-long study of the Raja Ampat epaulette shark found some of the highest population densities ever recorded for a ...

The critically-endangered river shark had only been sighted a handful of times in the 21st century. Then one Indonesian ...

Fourteen fossilized teeth revealed five extinct shark species from a time when much of northern Africa was submerged beneath ...

When someone says "shark," the first images that come to mind for many people are rather typical – great whites, bull sharks and tiger sharks. But there are some species lurking beneath the sea that ...

During the Late Cretaceous period, parts of Egypt were covered in water. A new study, published in the journal Cretaceous Research, describes new evidence that this tropical sea was home to a diverse ...

A hammerhead shark species discovered by FIU scientists finally has a name and its namesake is the late Paul G. Allen, philanthropist and cofounder of Microsoft. The existence of the new species, ...