How do shark teeth work?

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c

Our historian Keith looks back 58 years to the tale of an intrepid sea angler who targeted big sharks from the shore

The everyday habits that could turn back time on your teeth

A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.

With its majestic proportions and astonishing turn of speed–it can swim faster than a battleship–the bluefin tuna is poetry in motion

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters