A rare megamouth shark was caught off the coast of Japan last month and cut open in front of 1,500 onlookers.
A fisherman accidentally caught a rare goblin shark in his net off the Florida Keys in the south-eastern US.
A fisherman has managed to catch an 3.35m, 365kg shark off Florida’s Gulf Coast beach.
The discovery of a skull from a 325-million-year-old primitive shark species shows that modern sharks are highly evolved creatures, despite maintaining basic “sharkiness” over millions of years.
A great white shark has been tracked heading towards British waters and could arrive off the Cornish coast within three days.