The psychedelic earth tiger, a dazzling rainbow tarantula from India, now faces extinction due to the illegal pet trade.

Juvenile white sharks aren’t quite the loners we imagined. In Southern California, these young predators overlap in space but largely avoid each other, with their movement patterns shaped more by ...

An unnamed surfer was stalked by an unidentified shark while surfing at Angels Beach in New South Wales, Australia.

The Aeolus in North Carolina combines two things that sound scary to many people: a shipwreck and sharks with needle-like ...

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

Paul de Gelder had always feared being attacked by a shark until one day it happened for real while testing new Navy ...

Often mistaken for their more dangerous relatives, the delicate by-the-wind sailors are largely harmless and rely on wind to ...

As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that’s closely linked with memory. The ...

According to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File (ISAF), there has never been a fatal ...

Experts have long tried to dispel the notion of sharks as bloodthirsty killers of the sea. In reality, these creatures are ...

A newly examined prehistoric shark, Bavariscyllium, challenges long-held beliefs about shark evolution, revealing a much more ...

A strange prehistoric shark that lived during the age of dinosaurs is giving scientists new clues about how modern sharks ...