As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the answer is simple: I’m astounded by the fact that I can walk along the beach in ...

This week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists report a way to use fossilized shark teeth to figure out where ...

Megalodon sharks were among the largest and most formidable predators ever to exist, dominating the oceans millions of years ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease.

Before the famously huge megalodon, another fearsome ocean predator roamed the seas. According to a paper published earlier this year in Communications Biology, a massive shark that exceeded the size ...

Scientists described several new species this past year, including a tiny marsupial, a Himalayan bat, an ancient tree, a giant manta ray, a bright blue butterfly and a fairy lantern, to name a few.

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study. And the trend shows no sign of slowing with scientists predicting that the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea ...

The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act to reduce federal regulations. One proposal would eliminate automatic protections for threatened species, known as the ...