During its lifetime nearly 100 million years ago, a newfound parasitic worm likely made its home in the bellies of fish. So how one ended up preserved in amber, fossilized tree resin, has ...

New research reveals the unusual shape, size and pattern of the dermal denticles that cover basking sharks—thought to be ...

Deep-sea animals should be small, starving, and fragile – but some of them become absolute giants. From giant squid and colossal amphipods to Greenland sharks that may live over 500 years, the deep ...

Moving at a speed of around two miles per hour, basking sharks can filter around 2,000 tons of seawater an hour. Unlike the two other filter-feeding sharks— whale sharks, the biggest fish on Earth, ...