The evolution of the shark is not what most people would expect. Instead of sharks evolving from a massive predator, the original creature was a small, leaf-shaped fish. This fish lacked eyes and fins ...

Now, scientists are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic "sharkitecture" that helps these ancient apex predators withstand extreme physical demands of constant ...

Despite not having bones, sharks can grow pretty large. There’s the aforementioned whale shark, roughly the size of a bowling lane, but let's not forget the basking shark, also something of a colossus ...

Analyzing a Shark Skeleton An X-ray nanotomography reconstruction of the intermedial cartilage of a blacktip shark. The colors indicate the thickness of the struts, with red representing thicker areas ...

But, in this case, we have an almost complete shark skeleton with no teeth." Analysis of the skeleton and its lack of teeth has indicated that Dave was a kind of basking or filter-feeder shark, ...

Looks like “Jaws” can get an origin story. Paleontologists discovered fossils of an ancient “shark” species now known to have swam the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago during the ...

Faster than any shark alive today and big enough to eat an orca in just five ... Then they used a full-body scan of a great white shark to estimate how flesh would sit on the megalodon’s skeleton.

An almost complete skeleton of a Cretaceous shark has been uncovered in Mexico. The find sheds light on what the prehistoric relative of the great white looked like.

Using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing, researchers are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic ...

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