Side view of a great white shark with highlighted skin sampling locations, showing detailed denticles captured by a microfocus X-ray CT scanner. New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could ...

Whale sharks are well-known for being the biggest sharks in the sea. They’re also an excellent gigantic photo opportunity for scuba-diving vacationers. But what about those small teeth covering their ...

My, what big eyes you have... the better to eat you with? Whale sharks, the largest non-mammal vertebrate in the world, have small teeth covering their eyeballs, researchers in Japan have discovered.

For 400 million years, shark-like fishes have prowled the oceans as predators, but now humans kill 100 million sharks per year, radically disrupting ocean food chains. Based on microscopic shark ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Teeth and denticles belong to a specialized class of mineralizing epithelial appendages called odontodes. Although homology of oral teeth in ...

Yup, you read that title correctly. According to a newly published study, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) eyes are covered with dermal denticles, which is a novel mechanism of eye protection in ...

I wonder how robust shark denticles are to environmental changes, say pH or a presence or absence of some chemical constituents of the sediment. It's been studied extensively for diatoms and a number ...

For hundreds of millions of years, sharks have been roaming Earth’s oceans making meals out of a huge range of critters, from the whale shark gobbling up tiny krill to the 60-foot megalodon that could ...

If you’re a shark-enthusiast, you’ve probably asked yourself: “What was life like for them before we came around?” An international team, led by UC Santa Barbara ecologist Erin Dillon, aimed to find ...

Sharks are some of nature’s greatest survivors. For more than 400 million years, the marine predators have plied Earth’s waters, from shallow reefs to the heart of the open ocean. Sharks are older ...