The first ever pregnant megamouth shark to be found washed up in the Philippines in December 2023. It was 5.5m long and each ...

A rarely seen megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was recently spotted in east Africa for the very first time. It was recorded in a market in Zanzibar, where it was being sold after being ...

An extremely rare megamouth shark was caught by Filipino fishermen, marking only the 41st time the species has been seen in the 33 years since its discovery and giving new insight into the elusive ...

The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters. As you dive 140 meters underwater, you might see a megamouth shark. Sure, they look scary, but those 50 rows of teeth are for filtering krill.

The Conversation Studying and eventually preserving the megamouth will help researchers learn more about the puzzling species Researchers found that the sharks are 'functionally extinct' in 20 ...

Together with basking and megamouth sharks, they are one of just three planktivorous or filter-feeding sharks and have cruised the world’s seas for some 50 million years. Little is known of their ...