The chain catshark may look like any other shark in daylight, but under blue light, its skin glows neon green. Here’s a breakdown of this remarkable adaptation.

MORE DETAILS. TODD: SHARK SEASON IS OVER NEW ENGLAND, AND IS BEEN AN AVERAGE YEAR. RESEARCH IS CONTINUING. A NEWLY FORMED CONSORTIUM IS LEVERAGING THE EXPERTISE OF 13 DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS TO GAIN ...

A primordial developmental toolkit shared by all vertebrates, and described by a theory of the mathematician Alan Turing, sets the growth pattern for all types of skin structures. In 1952, well before ...

Could a fearsome underwater creature hold the key to preventing deadly infections in humans? That question - which will be explored this week in the PBS "Nova" series, "Making Stuff" - is examined by ...

Wrightsville Beach, N.C. — An 8-year-old boy in North Carolina is recovering from a shark bite. He's one of three people who were attacked this month in the state, and warming waters could be partly ...

Juvenile white sharks aren’t quite the loners we imagined. In Southern California, these young predators overlap in space but largely avoid each other, with their movement patterns shaped more by ...

VIRGINIA KEY, Fla., June 23 (UPI) -- U.S. and Canadian scientists have used geographic profiling to determine the hunting patterns of white sharks living in waters off South Africa. Geographic ...

The era of extreme climate change is upon us. And in spite of the ecological horrors to come, white sharks are in their element, as population numbers on California's Central Coast continue to climb ...