Jan 21, 2025 · 5 fast facts about sharks. The largest known great white shark was 20 feet (6 meters) long.; Sharks sleep, but they may keep their eyes open while they do it.; Sharks can learn to solve puzzles by ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Bite into the meatiest coverage of great white sharks, megalodons and more with the latest shark news, features and articles from Live Science.

Jul 16, 2024 · To measure the sharks' metabolism in the new study, the researchers took tissue samples from the muscle of 23 Greenland sharks that were caught on the south coast of Disko Island in central Greenland.

Aug 7, 2024 · Like salmon, female sharks always return to their birth site to drop their pups, Noble said. This means that the sharks' mitochondrial DNA, which they inherit only from their mothers, "is a bit ...

Jan 7, 2025 · The team then applied this healing scale to pictures of sand tiger sharks from the database Spot A Shark U.S.A., which encourages citizen scientists to submit images of C. taurus snapped along the ...

Nov 29, 2024 · Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the sea, weighing up to 40 tons (36 metric tons) and usually growing up to 40 feet (12 meters) long, according to the National Ocean Service ...

Sep 25, 2024 · The big question is, what is the relationship between sharks and placoderms like Dunkleosteus, these armored fishes that ruled the roost in the Silurian and Devonian periods [444 million to 359 ...

Jul 5, 2022 · Basking sharks are often regarded as slow, gentle giants but they are capable of rocketing out of the water at speeds of 11 mph (18 km/h) and jumping 4 feet (1.2 m) in the air to breach, Live ...

Nov 22, 2024 · Sharks play a critical role in ocean ecosystems, and they're found in all of Earth's oceans. But many species are now under threat from climate change, overfishing, pollution and the shark fin trade.

Mar 1, 2024 · By grabbing the shark's pectoral fin and shaking it, Starboard tore the shark open in precisely the right spot to remove its liver. Related: Great white shark ripped in 2 was 'loaded' with orca ...