A biological material that has existed for millions of years may find new applications in modern electronics. A team of scientists from UC Santa Cruz, the University of Washington, and the Benaroya ...

Sniffing electric fields: ampullae of Lorenzini on a tiger shark's snout. (CC BY-SA/Albert Kok) Scientists in the US have discovered that a jelly-like material found in the skin of sharks and some ...

The secret to sharks' ability to track and hunt down their prey could all hinge upon a strange type of jelly found in the pores that dot their heads and bodies. Only now, over 300 years after it was ...

Researchers may have tapped into the "secret sauce" that allows sharks, skates and rays to detect weak electric fields produced by their prey. Actually, it turns out to be a mysterious jelly, but one ...

A handler in Indonesia holds Jelly, the first of seven eggs bred at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium to hatch as part of a global shark conservation effort. At just 9.8 inches long and weighing roughly ...