Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Filter-feeding sharks include whale sharks, megamouth sharks and basking sharks. These species have teeth, but they are largely vestigial - meaning they once served a purpose but over time the animal ...

Despite having about 3,000 tiny teeth, whale sharks use their expansive mouths to filter feed, consuming plankton and small ...

Whale sharks rarely even notice humans, let alone eat us. They don’t eat anything larger than small fish. While they do have ...

The only part of their skeleton not made from this soft, flexible tissue is their teeth. The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites, but also all rays, skates and ...

Because sharks shed their teeth throughout their lifetimes and leave bite marks on escaped prey, it would be easy for us to detect the presence of an enormous whale-hunting shark even if the shark ...

While some species like lemon sharks do indeed have pointed teeth to help catch their slippery prey, other species like the whale shark are filter feeders, and have no sharp teeth at all.