Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized ...

New research reveals how shark skeletons combine strength and flexibility—offering a blueprint for future materials and ...

For decades, the giant ancient shark Otodus megalodon has loomed in our imaginations as a horror of the ancient seas — an ...

Great white sharks, with their thick bodies that grow ... “What we really need is the discovery of the complete skeleton,” Shimada said. “The real test comes when we really have the complete ...

"We also demonstrate that the modern great white shark with a stocky body hypothetically ... can either be empirically tested, or a complete skeleton of megalodon is found to confirm one way ...

"These are the only known three-dimensional fossils from these sharks where you can make out details of the skeleton," says Dearden. "Collared carpet sharks are rare today, so this can tell us ...

reinforced by thick struts that help the skeleton withstand strain from multiple directions -- a critical adaptation for sharks, whose constant swimming places repeated stress on the spine.