Anisopleurodontis is a genus of shark, but this genus contains just one species! They went extinct almost 300 million years ago and were closely linked to ratfish. They’re thought to have been ...

Sharks have lived for more than 400 million years and thousands of species have gone extinct across that time. Today’s sharks are pretty crazy. Just consider that the whale shark can measure up ...

The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

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 ...

CELINA - Though dinosaurs are the most notable of the prehistoric animals, smaller mammals and fish walked and swam in Ohio, ...

The species was so widely spread that megalodon ... It may also have resulted in the megalodon's prey either going extinct or adapting to the cooler waters and moving to where the sharks could not ...

While much of life became extinct during the End-Cretaceous extinction event ... asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous killed off many of the largest species of shark. Only the smallest and ...

Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological ...

Paleontologists have discovered what they believe to be vomit from 66 million years ago.

The scientific term for fossilized vomit is regurgitalite. Surprisingly, the timeless throw up is far from the oldest out there — Dr. Milàn said that Germany, for example, has laid claim to an even ...