Sharks have been evolving in Earth’s oceans for more than 450 million years, long before dinosaurs ever walked the planet. Throughout that vast history, they diversified into some of the strangest and ...

The curious minds at What If imagine an epic battle between a Megalodon shark and a massive Mosasaurus, exploring which prehistoric predator would dominate the oceans. Study of 27.8M Americans may ...

A Costa Rica tour group this week experienced a mesmerizing encounter with a whale shark measuring 15-plus feet in the emerald shallows off Guanacaste. The accompanying footage was captured Monday by ...

Shark Tracker shows 10-foot, 6-inch shark virtually on the coast.

Despite a recent string of shark attacks across the California coast, including the tragic killing of a 55-year-old swimmer, the violent incidents dropped in the United States in 2025 compared to the ...

For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.

Despite a healthy alligator population thriving in the Everglades, a guaranteed sighting doesn’t actually exist. However, ...

If modern sharks seem intimidating, their prehistoric ancestors were even more extraordinary. Long before today’s great ...

A bit of Jeopardy-worthy trivia leads this week’s outdoor notes. “I’ll take chinook salmon for $1,000 Alex (or Ken).” The question: “Why will Oregon anglers be grateful for California rice growers in ...

Researchers filmed a 10-to-13-foot sleeper shark off the South Shetland Islands, in what may be the first recording of the species that far south. By Jenny Gross More than 1,600 feet below the ocean’s ...

Australia Antarctic Shark In this image made from video and released by the University of Western Australia, a sleeper shark swims into the spotlight of a video camera in Antarctica in January 2025.

MELBOURNE, Australia — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks didn ...