Read on to find out about the biggest sharks in the world. The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is the largest fish in the world. It’s found in tropical and temperate oceans, in both deep water and ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites ... The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during ...

The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body -- closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale. The megalodon ... body to survive at that scale," Sternes said.