Shark fans think that the extinct species known as the 'megalodon' still exists today, after footage from a documentary ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

Fauna & Flora, an international nature conservation group, has identified 10 weird and wonderful species at risk of ...

A "serrated blade" found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a "nearly perfect" prehistoric ...

Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a precursor to the great white shark. Found in Peru's Pisco basin, the exceptional fossil includes a ...

How did the goblin shark score its haunting name? It has something to do with the goblin shark's visage. Find out more about ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white ...

Major report shows one third of shark and ray species are endangered, and two thirds of the endangered species are at risk of ...

Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil belonging to an ancestor of the great white shark.

It belonged to a Squalicorax falcatus shark, which prowled ... the tooth survived intact. The species met its demise during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (known as the KT extinction ...