Passengers and crew on a boat headed from Ventura to Santa Cruz Island spotted a 20-foot basking shark this week. Here's what to know.

If modern sharks seem intimidating, their prehistoric ancestors were even more extraordinary. Long before today’s great ...

New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...

A 13-year-old boy died on Thursday after he was mauled by a shark at a popular beach on Brazil's eastern coast, the state government said in a statement. The attack happened off the coast of Chifre ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Chondrichthyan fishes—a group that includes rays, skates, chimaeras, and sharks—are thought to have energy intensive reproduction cycles due in no ...

Andre de Ruyter was critically injured in a shark attack at North Steyne Beach in Australia on Monday, Jan. 19 Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.

Amidst the outbreak of shark attacks in Sydney, Australia from a week ago, one of the victims was miraculously rescued, clinging to life thanks to Good Samaritans. Andre de Ruyter, 27, was surfing ...

The frilled shark is one of the most unusual predators ever documented in the deep ocean. Its body shape, teeth, and movement resemble creatures from Earth’s distant past. Scientists consider it a ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors. Long before forests reshaped Earth’s ...

Scientists working in Mexico have recorded multiple incidents in which a group of orcas hunt young great white sharks and eat their energy-rich livers. In one incident, recorded in August 2020 using ...