Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. © Dmitry Bogdanov / CC BY 3.0 A richly biodiverse ocean during the Late Cretaceous period ...

A newly discovered prehistoric shark, Bavariscyllium, is rewriting our understanding of shark evolution. This fascinating creature, which roamed the seas about 150 million years ago during the ...

SOLOMONS, Md. — Fossil discoveries along Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs reveal that ancestors of the great white shark, dating back 15 million years, consumed marine mammals like dolphins and whales ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors. Long before forests reshaped Earth’s ...

It's Shark Week, and Mammoth Cave took the unofficial holiday to announce the discovery of another new shark species. Mammoth Cave announced the discovery of the "Macadens olsoni" Thursday. The fossil ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the answer is simple: I’m astounded by the fact that I can walk along the beach in ...