This was a discovery they could really sink their teeth into. A rare smalltooth sawfish, considered a “prehistoric” shark relative with an eye-popping 32 teeth affixed to its exterior, was recently ...

This probably won’t be the last embarrassing story about the 2023-24 San Jose Sharks. “The team played primitive hockey,” Alexander Barabanov told RG.org in Russian recently. “You run around without ...

Cartilaginous fish have changed much more in the course of their evolutionary history than previously believed. Evidence for this thesis has been provided by new fossils of a ray-like shark, ...

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A fishing trawler has pulled up a fascinating example of a living fossil. Frill sharks are one of the earliest types of sharks and date back 80 million years. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s evolution from a primordial soup to the haven for life it is today. When we think of Earth’s ancient ...

A first ever video of “the most primitive of the modern sharks” in the wild was unveiled this week by Beneath the Waves, a research nonprofit devoted to shark conservation. The minute-long video, ...

Palaeoreconstruction of the Solnhofen Archipelago 150 million years ago showing Protospinax annectans and the Jurassic ray Asterodermus platypterus. Credit: C: Manuel Andreas Staggl ...