The woman's body was recovered from the ocean south of Davenport Beach. The body that was discovered near where a swimmer who may have been attacked by a shark was positively identified as 55-year-old ...

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 monsters of the Cretaceous period.

A new megashark fossil from northern Australia reveals the first-known giant mackerel shark, dating back 115 million years. That shark would have been around 20 feet (6 meters) long, and appears in ...

Shark skeletons are mostly cartilage, so most of what we find from ancient sharks is teeth. ©Nico Ott/Shutterstock.com In a stroke of paleontological luck, scientists recently returned to a set of ...