This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Just hours after the end of TV’s Shark Week, ...

In 1988 and 1989, researchers in the Indian Ocean collected three unusual, small sharks. The creatures appeared to be angel sharks, but they were a different color and size than the only known species ...

Artisanal fishers on the coast of Chile were on the hunt for bony fishes when they dropped their gillnets into the water. Pulling the nets through the water, something much bigger — and important — ...