New research reveals the unusual shape, size and pattern of the dermal denticles that cover basking sharks—thought to be ...

Sharks are usually seen as one type of animal that hunts the oceans, but in fact, there are a lot of them. Some of them even have features so strange that they almost look like beings from another ...

For years, people living along the coast of Papua New Guinea have known about a strange shark that strolls across shallow reefs on its fins. They even had a name for it—kadedekedewa, which roughly ...

The deep ocean remains one of the least observed environments on Earth. Vast stretches of water thousands of metres below the surface are rarely visited, and many of the animals that live there are ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A pocket-sized pocket shark found in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be a new species. And the mysterious pouches that it’s named for, up near its front fins? Scientists say ...

One of the world’s most biodiverse marine locations, the Coral Triangle, has yielded a new species of shark. This very special creature is a type of walking shark, meaning it can use its fins to walk ...

Scientists have identified a new species of 'walking' shark in Papua New Guinea, named Hemiscyllium dudgeonae. This unique shark uses its pectoral fins to navigate shallow reef flats, a trait shared ...

Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and a carnivorous “death ball” sponge. These are just three of the 1,121 “previously unknown” ...