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a megamouth shark is hung by its tail on the back of a ship
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The Original Megamouth

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A prickly dogfish swims in blue water near the ocean's bottom.
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Prickly Dogfish

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A stingray swims in an Australian marine reserve.
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Shark Cousins: the Skates and Rays

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A strange looking frilled shark smiles at the camera.
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Frilled Shark

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The tasseled wobbegong, has a fringe of dermal lobes around its entire head, each of which is elaborately branched.
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Wobbegong Shark

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Ghost shark swimming
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Ghost Shark

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Spotted Catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
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The Cat-Like Eyes of a Catshark

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A great white shark next to a giant megatooth shark
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How Big are Great White Sharks?

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A diagram of a shark's six highly refined senses: smell, hearing, touch, taste, sight, and electromagnetism
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Shark Senses

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Great White Sharks breach to hunt -- with split-second timing they grab their prey in one swift snatch. Follow the whole breaching action in this slideshow.
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Breaching Great White Shark on the Hunt

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A blue shark, with a copepod attached to its dorsal fin, coasts through waters near New England.
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Blue Shark

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A bamboo shark grows in a thick egg case. Even within the egg case, the embryonic sharks can sense predators nearby and, in response, stop all gill movement and hold still to slip under the radar.
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Shark Embryo

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