Despite being one of the largest fish in the sea, sightings of the megamouth shark are few and far between. Really far between. Thus research of the species is also scarce.But last Sept. 11, a pair… ...

Not much is known about the megamouth, which was first observed by scientists in 1976. A new specimen (not pictured above) has traveled to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History ...

In 1990, a 16-foot male megamouth was caught and released with a scientific tag off Dana Point in Orange County. The shark was tracked to a depth of 520 feet during the day, but at night it rose ...

Megamouth sharks can live up to 100 years and grow to lengths of about 20ft. They can live as deep as 15,000ft below the ocean surface, as a result of which there are only 269 confirmed human ...

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 ...

Now, a megamouth that was captured by fishers off the coast of Taiwan in 2018 is sitting on a gigantic block of ice at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Support Center. The ...

A rare megamouth shark is sitting on a giant block of ice at the Smithsonian museum, where it will hopefully shed light on the bizarre, big-headed predator.

The first ever record of a pregnant megamouth shark has been documented after a dead female washed up on the shores of the Philippines. The 18-foot-long (5.5 meters) megamouth shark (Megachasma ...

The megamouth shark was first discovered in 1976 by a U.S. navy research vessel that was operating in Hawaiian waters. The shark had became tangled in some underwater cables and due to their ...