Fascinated with the mystery of aging and what animals can reveal about longevity? Explore how scientists are drawing ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

Some animals age in ways that look very different from the way humans and most other species age. A small group of creatures can slow aging dramatically or even reset parts of their life cycle.

In the waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, a remarkable creature glides silently through the darkness. The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) isn't just another marine predator; it's a ...

Greenland has long been attractive to filmmakers. But now Greenlanders are shaping that process, even as visibility also ...

Researchers believe the Gulf is a winter habitat for great white sharks who make their way back into the North Atlantic ...

Thirty-three shark and twenty stingray species have been recorded swimming in seas around Greece in the last 90 years.

However, these 12-foot-long, solitary sharks appear to form important social bonds. A study published today in the journal Animal Behaviour finds that they create these relationships with only a few ...

Bull sharks may have a reputation as lone hunters, but new research reveals they actually form social bonds and even have preferred “friends.” After six years of observing 184 sharks in Fiji, ...

Weighing up to 500 pounds and measuring more than 11 feet long, bull sharks are massive apex predators that can live in both saltwater and freshwater. They primarily stick to tropical coastlines and ...

Sharks are often viewed as solitary, but a new study—carried out on the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji—has found that rather than mixing at random, bull sharks have "active social preferences" and ...

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative.