It’s a narrative underscored by a recent discovery—that of a well-preserved 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus hastalis, an ancestor of the great white shark, in the Pisco Basin of Peru.

Editor’s note: This post looks back to 2012, when the accompanying image was captured on a Mexican beach, at a time when it was not widely known that adult great white sharks inhabited the Sea ...

Contender, the largest male great white shark tagged by OCEARCH, was tagged off the Florida-Georgia line on January 17. OCEARCH, a non-profit research organization, uses satellite tags attached to ...

A newly tagged 9-foot great white shark popped up close to a South Florida beach over the weekend. The satellite tag attached to the shark's dorsal fin by OCEARCH researchers surfaced and sent a ...