The Pacific Sleeper Shark is a silent predator designed for ... they’re known to feast on giant Pacific octopuses and other ...

A modern megalodon would instead resemble "a sleeper shark—a long ... or the remains of what was eaten, like the giant squid ...

A research team now suggests the giant shark may have been more slender than scientists thought, according to a new publication in Palaeontologia Electronica. If that's true, it would alter our ...

The giant shark, which is related to the modern day great white shark, lived about 15 to 3.6 million years ago. Previous research has put its length at a whopping 50 to 65 feet, with many artists ...

Languages: English, Spanish A large, rarely seen shark—possibly one of the heaviest of its species—washed up ashore in a location where it has never been recorded before. The 11-foot-long ...

Puzzled scientists are trying to figure out what a giant shark native to the Arctic ... was that it was "definitely" in the sleeper shark family due to its large size, and was most likely a ...

Fossils of the extinct giant are hard to come by: While there are plenty of fossilized shark teeth, their bodies mainly consist of cartilage rather than bones, and are rarely preserved.

The recent accidental catch of a “very large” thresher shark off Rhode Island was fortuitous in that the shark was safely released and continues to provide researchers with important data.

East Coast shark researchers fortunately had a better ... Michalove called the nearly 3,000 pounder a “giant” that was quite gentle, never showing any signs of aggression.