The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

Shark fans think that the extinct species known as the 'megalodon' still exists today, after footage from a documentary ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

A video shows a giant endangered 11ft long shark lying dead on a British beach - sparking fury after speculation it was killed by anglers. The thresher shark was found washed-up on Par Sands Beach ...

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The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature 7 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding seawater. This information might ...

A dog walker at Par Beach on New Year’s Day found the body of an endangered shark with signs of “significant trauma,” officials said. Google Street View May ...

Researchers have recently witnessed behavior in the wild that could offer critical clues about how the endangered whale shark ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the biggest fish on the planet, with some clocking in at 60 feet long. Now, for the first time, we might have some clues to how these endangered gentle giants mate.

For the first time, researchers have witnessed behaviour in the wild which could reveal critical clues about how the ...