A hulking shark with a rubbery, lantern-like mouth and a body the length of a delivery van is not what most people expect to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fish in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the ...

A megamouth shark that stranded in the Philippines is the first pregnant individual ever recorded in this rare species. The finding confirms that megamouths (Megachasma pelagios) are ovoviviparous: ...

SAN DIEGO — Fishermen spotted two extremely rare megamouth sharks off the coast of San Diego. The sharks have only been seen a few hundred times throughout history. "We didn't really process the ...

Bethany “Bee” Smith was part of a generation of scientists who worked in the field while also explaining their work publicly, narrowing the distance between research and spectacle without denying the ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The risks of field science are usually described in abstract terms.