Most kids have a natural curiosity about sharks − especially their sharp and abundant teeth. Our team had the idea to use the appeal of this charismatic apex predator to teach how scientists use ...

Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its story begins on a rocky shoreline near Darwin, where a few heavy disks of ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

A newly examined prehistoric shark from the age of dinosaurs provides surprising insights into the early evolution of modern sharks. It cannot be confidently assigned to any shark order that exists ...

Six fossilized great white shark teeth have been found on Narragansett Town Beach in Rhode Island within a year. The Atlantic Shark Institute is encouraging the public to report any further ...

How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce ...

Peruvian paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric porpoise found near the country's Pacific coast. Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student creates their model using Google Teachable Machine. Christine Wusylko, CC BY-ND Most kids have a natural curiosity about ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Wusylko, University of Florida and Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida ...