Shark orders include highly specialised species such as sawsharks, angel sharks and bullhead sharks.

Ground sharks make up the largest shark order on Earth, yet most people have never heard the name Carcharhiniformes despite ...

Beneath the sun-baked sands of Egypt’s Abu-Tartur Plateau, paleontologists have unearthed fourteen fossilized shark teeth ...

Carpet sharks range from tiny reef-dwellers that walk on their fins to the largest fish on Earth, and they all belong to the same surprisingly varied order. Meet the bizarre, camouflaged, and ...

Scientists have made a rare discovery in Egypt's desert, uncovering a shark graveyard of now-extinct species left frozen in ...

New assessments by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show 316 chondrichthyan species – sharks, rays and skates, and chimaeras – are now threatened with extinction. “These ...

During the Late Cretaceous period, parts of Egypt were covered in water. A new study, published in the journal Cretaceous Research, describes new evidence that this tropical sea was home to a diverse ...

As interest in sharks ramps up ahead of Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which runs from July 26 through Aug. 1, two recent studies offer new insights into how sharks are changing their behavior and ...

Residents of southeastern Papua New Guinea have long known about an unusual fish that can “walk” across the reef flats at low tide with most of its body out of the water. They call it kadedekedewa, ...