If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
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Are there any advantages to looking so cumbersome?
Research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
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The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
You can’t farm spiders — but putting spider genes into silkworms works even better.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.
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Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.
Crypto is a lot of things, but it isn’t a currency. "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O’Leary, a.k.a. “Mr. Wonderful,” breaks down what it would take to get there.
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Evolution proves to be just about as ingenious as Nikola Tesla
The skeleton of the world's oldest known shark attack victim exhibits telltale wounds.
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.
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Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we're relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here's our place in natural history.
Yet another ocean monster has been discovered.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
"Ghost gear" leads to hundreds of thousands of animal deaths.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
Sharks fear killer whales. How does this impact the ecosystems they share?
A new study bases its calculations on more than the great white shark.
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.
The ocean's largest shark relies on vision more than previously believed.