When you think about sharks, the first thing that might come to mind are huge jaws filled with rows of deadly-looking teeth. But shark teeth come in many shapes and sizes. They can tell us how these ...

An illustration from Steno’s 1667 paper comparing teeth from a dissected shark head to a fossilized ... But the fish is still large by human standards; Sues has a set of mako jaws at home ...

They both have a skeleton made of cartilage, similar to what human ears and noses ... is covered in tiny modified teeth. These teeth reduce drag and make the shark swim faster.

It is estimated that its jaw would span 2.7 by 3.4 metres wide, easily big enough to swallow two adult people side-by-side. These jaws were lined with 276 teeth, and studies reconstructing the shark's ...

Shark bites reached a surprising low in 2024, with only 47 unprovoked incidents worldwide, significantly below the 10-year ...

Our study was one of the first to date Florida coastal deposits using fossil shark teeth and a technique that looks at variations in ocean strontium. Strontium is a chemical element that occurs ...

Remarkably, fossil shark teeth are also incredibly abundant. Sharks ruled the earth's oceans for 400 million years, and every individual grows and sheds thousands of teeth in their lifetime.

To be the hunter or the hunted? That is the question posed by SharkBite 2, the closest thing you can get to Jaws on the ...