The evolution of the shark is not what most people would expect. Instead of sharks evolving from a massive predator, the original creature was a small, leaf-shaped fish. This fish lacked eyes and fins ...
Blacktips are medium-sized coastal sharks commonly found in warm, shallow waters around the world, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Sharks don’t ...
An X-ray nanotomography reconstruction of the intermedial cartilage of a blacktip shark. The colors indicate the thickness of the struts, with red representing thicker areas and blue indicating ...
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The megalodon, a giant shark that went extinct some 3.6 million years ago, is famous for its utterly enormous jaws and correspondingly huge teeth. Recent studies have proposed that the megalodon was a ...
A remarkably preserved 150-million-year-old shark fossil is forcing researchers to reconsider how modern sharks evolved. The species, Bavariscyllium, displays a mix of features that do not align with ...