Rarely seen 'living fossil' shark caught off Tokyo
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A goblin shark -- a rarely seen species often called a &quot;living fossil&quot; --  was caught alive in Tokyo Bay but died after being put on display, an aquarium said.
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A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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A shoal of sunfish -- the world's largest bony fish -- has been spotted in the waters off Cornwall, south west Britain, despite normally being found thousands of miles away, scientists said.
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By Michael Casey  BANGKOK, Thailand  --  Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Indonesia's Papua province say they have discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.
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IT is one of only two complete specimens ever known to be found - and it is causing a stir. The 7m-long Longman&#39;s beaked whale, which washed up on a beach at Byron Bay, was last seen in Australia in 1882.
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FOUR swimmers confronted by a great white shark off the coast of New Zealand were saved by dolphins that came to their rescue. The three-metre (10ft) shark came
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An extremely rare whale with a beak like a dolphin found dead on a Byron Bay beach has excited Australia&#39;s marine researchers.
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OSLO: Scientists said yesterday they found two types of shark, exotic "flasher" fish and corals among 52 new species in seas off Indonesia, confirming the western Pacific as the richest marine habitat on earth.
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Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster.
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Ancient fish could bite a shark in two  Sharks were not always the top predators in the ocean.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A pod of dolphins saved a group of swimmers from a predatory 10-foot great white shark off the northern New Zealand coast, a newspaper reported Tuesday.  The unusual incident occurred Oct.
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The remains of a 230-million-old marine reptile with fangs and a long neck are unearthed by fossil hunters in southeast China.
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Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.
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Scientists have found a 16-foot fossil of a new species of fish-like lizard that swam the seas 160 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled on land.
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A fresh-water dolphin believed to be extinct has been sighted in the Yangtze River, Chinese state media report.
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Dramatic story of fighting off shark in Bondi waters revealed to be a fishy tale
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Three shark attacks off the Texas coast in the past two months are unusual but don't mean there are more sharks than normal along the beach or that they are getting bolder, marine biologists and other experts say.