Callorhinchus milii grow to around four feet. Elephant sharks, which occasionally get snagged in commercial fishing nets, typically live at depths of up to 650 feet.

For the elephant shark, evolution is so 400 million years ago It's a living fossil to beat all others. The elephant shark, Callorhinchus milii (pictured), has the slowest-evolving genome of any ...

The cartilaginous elephant shark has a basal phylogenetic position useful for understanding jawed vertebrate evolution. Survey sequencing of its genome identified four Hox clusters, suggesting ...

The fossil, found in the town of Mukawa's Hobetsu district, is said to be the first known case in the North Pacific for a member of the genus Callorhinchus, which includes today's elephant fish.

Elephant sharks (Callorhinchus milii) are part of an early evolutionary branch of cartilaginous fishes known as chimaeras, which are related to sharks and rays. They patrol the deep waters off ...