Citizen science is evolving in classrooms, as students contribute to understanding the ancient ecology of sharks through ...

However, in 2018, testing on the fossil concluded it is actually in the shark and ray family due to the similarity in ...

How did the goblin shark score its haunting name? It has something to do with the goblin shark's visage. Find out more about ...

Goblin sharks are generally rare, deep-water predatory species classified as living fossils. Its ancestral ownliness reaches ...

Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, says, 'Shark-like scales from the Late Ordovician have been found, but no teeth. If these were from sharks it would suggest that the earliest ...

Charles Shelton Jr. has collected thousands of shark teeth, jaws and other fossils over the past three decades. He now shares ...

Some mummified fossils include mammoths found frozen in the arctic permafrost, which are preserved by the cold just as a freezer preserves food. In the Kits: #12: Shark tooth (specifically, the enamel ...

The epaulette shark’s ability to “walk” on land gives it a distinct survival advantage and traces its lineage back to the ...

When these minerals reach the tooth, a chemical reaction takes place, which slowly turns the tooth into a fossil.’ The colour of a shark tooth fossil will depend on the minerals present in the ...

MYRTLE BEACH — Charles Shelton Jr. never planned on becoming an expert in shark tooth hunting. A West Virginia native, he started hunting for the tiny dark triangular fossils when he was a ...

Goblin sharks are considered living fossils because the species was thought to be extinct. Despite existing in modern scientific history for little more than a century, the goblin shark species is ...