The availability of prey and the ability to adapt to changing environments played key roles in the evolution of sharks. A new study, in which over 3,000 shark teeth were analysed, provides new insight ...

The extinction event that wiped out all nonbird dinosaurs about 66 million years ago also shook up shark evolution. Fossilized shark teeth show that the extinction marked a shift in the relative fates ...

Mohamad Bazzi receives funding from Forschungskredit (K-74604-01-01). Nicolas Campione receives funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DE190101423). Before ...

Many Cretaceous Lamniformes had specialised diets for eating marine reptiles and, following their loss at the end of the age of dinosaurs, these Lamniformes went extinct. On the other hand, ...