There are more than 500 species of sharks in the world today and they are some of the best-known predators around. Although ...

In the vast darkness of the deep sea, where finding a mate can be as challenging as surviving the crushing pressure, anglerfishes have evolved one of nature’s most extraordinary reproductive ...

One summer day off the northern coast of New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine noticed something strange on the water’s surface. The dorsal fin slicing through the Hauraki Gulf belonged to a shortfin mako ...

even if not the fastest swimmers. Black marlin, a swift ocean predator, reaches speeds up to 82 mph, aided by its streamlined body and powerful muscles. Wahoo, a speedy scombrid fish found in ...

This isn’t the first time a mysterious object from the sea has left the public puzzled. Just last spring, beachgoers were stunned when a massive, bloodsucking sea creature, roughly the size of a ...

Octopuses usually are on the ocean floor, where shortfin mako sharks typically do not go. “It makes no sense that these two animals should ... since the world’s fastest shark species can ...

In a rare and remarkable sight, a Maori octopus was spotted clinging to the back of a shortfin mako shark—one of the fastest predators in the ocean. The moment, captured on video in December ...

With documented swimming speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, mako sharks represent the world’s fastest elasmobranch ... much there is still to learn about ocean ecosystems. Constantine ...

(John Oxley Library/State Library of Queensland via Courthouse News) Resembling great ocean liners like the RMS Titanic, the SS United States was hailed for its design, construction and speed when it ...

The Cheetah is the fastest land animals. It has a lightweight body that and long legs that can speed up to 75 mph. Its powerful muscles enables rapid acceleration while hunting. Proghorn Antelope is ...

The researchers were bemused by this bizarre sight, as octopuses usually live on the ocean floor, while shortfin makos spend most of their time swimming near the surface. "We really don't know how ...