The frilled shark is one of the most unusual predators ever documented in the deep ocean. Its body shape, teeth, and movement resemble creatures from Earth’s distant past. Scientists consider it a ...

Deep sea holds alien-like species. The frilled shark, a living fossil, remains a mystery. Its unique anatomy includes six ...

A woman who went missing while swimming on Sunday may have encountered a shark off the California coast, authorities said. The unidentified 55-year-old swimmer was reported missing off Lovers Point in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Everyone’s favorite white shark, Contender, is back on the move again, this time toward warmer seas for the winter. Contender caught attention in January, when he was tagged by nonprofit OCEARCH, off ...

A 12-foot, 1,000-pound great white shark named Ernst has been tracked off the coast of Southwest Florida. The shark was tagged by the research group OCEARCH, which studies keystone ocean species like ...

A missing swimmer in Monterey Peninsula was identified by eyewitnesses Monday as multiple area agencies continued, and then later suspended, their search on Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. Just after ...

Authorities have suspended the search for Erica Fox, a 55-year-old Monterey County resident and co-founder of the local open-water swimming group Kelp Krawlers, after an exhaustive multi-agency effort ...

The woman's body was recovered from the ocean south of Davenport Beach. The body that was discovered near where a swimmer who may have been attacked by a shark was positively identified as 55-year-old ...

Every two years in October - in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014 - a secluded beach on the central California coast has been the scene of great white shark attacks. Is it the same shark returning again and ...