3,000-year-old skeleton missing a hand and a leg is world's oldest shark attack victim And researchers are able to piece together the victim's dying moments in astonishing detail.

A 3,000-year-old skeleton found in an archaeological site near the Seto Inland Sea in Japan is believed to be the oldest shark attack victim ever discovered, new research has found.

The shark skeleton is a short-finned mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), one of two living mako sharks.

A man buried near Japan’s coast around 3,000 years ago, whose skeleton is shown where it was excavated, is the oldest known victim of a shark bite, a new study finds. Laboratory of Physical ...

Horned sea monster? Dragon? A long, smelly carcass that washed up on the Spanish coast may never be conclusively identified — but experts say it sure looks like the remains of a thresher shark ...

A Shark Ancestor’s Skeleton Was Made Of Bone, Not Cartilage Given that sharks today are primarily composed of cartilage, it raises the question of whether their ancestors ever had bones.

An archaeological mystery has been solved as scientists conclude that the mangled remains of a prehistoric Japanese fisherman, who sustained nearly 800 different injuries, was likely due to a shark… ...

A 3,000-year-old skeleton found in an archaeological site near the Seto Inland Sea in Japan is believed to be the oldest shark attack victim ever discovered, new research has found.

The complete fossilized skeleton of a shark that existed more than 350 million-years-ago has been discovered for the first time, a find researchers say is "unprecedented." ...

Shark teeth and jaws are often found fossilized, but the rest of the shark’s skeleton rarely is. This is because the teeth and jaws, according to Moyer, are reinforced by “deposits of calcium ...