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The sharks and other predators made a surprising number of visits to the “twilight zone.” Also called the mesopelagic zone, it’s roughly between 650 feet and 3,280 feet below the surface. ...

These top predators eat smaller animals, balancing the populations of fish and other marine life. For example, sharks protect ...

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One of Earth's biggest apex predators, the gigantic megalodon, was an ancestor of modern-day sharks. Megalodon lived 23 million to 4 million years ago and grew up to 65 feet (20 m) long .

The white belly of a great white shark serves a surprisingly useful purpose.

The Greenland shark, one of two species of sleeper sharks, was the obvious suspect, she said, so they performed autopsies to see what they had been eating. That's when they found the polar bear bone.