Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Western Australia researchers found a sleeper shark swimming into the spotlight of a video camera in Antarctica in ...

Meet the longest-lived animal with a backbone. Scientists estimate that Greenland sharks live for around 250 years, but some may live as long as 500 years. These cold-water sharks not only eat sea ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In ecology, the diversity of species generally increases as you move toward the warmer latitudes of the tropics. A new study explores a curious exception to this trend, examining why ...

An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks didn't exist in the frigid ...

More than 200 meters beneath the surface of the South Atlantic, where sunlight fades to nothing and water temperatures hover just above freezing, a remotely operated vehicle glided over a landscape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thresher sharks are carnivorous and primarily feed on small fish and squid. They use their tails to herd their prey and then ...