Meet the ninja lantern shark, also know as Etmopterus benchleyi — named after Jaws author Peter Benchley. It is sleek, black, camouflaged, and it glows in the dark. All the better for the hunt.

When Victoria consulted her young cousins to help with a common name for this new species, there were many options from the excited shark-loving kids, but Ninja Lanternshark, honed down from Super ...

The committee, comprised of four kids in Vásquez’s family between the ages of 8 and 14, settled on the "ninja lantern shark." "They started with 'super ninja,' but I had to scale them back ...

Ohhhh boy ohboyohboyohboyohboyohboy! There’s a new shark in town, you guys, and it’s got the awesomely Internet-baiting name of the “ninja lanternshark.” We’re calling it now: 2016 is ...

A shark collected during a research expedition in 2010 turns out to be a ninja lanternshark, a brand new species of shark, so named because it is all black, which is how a ninja is typically dressed.

In an exclusive clip from Ninja Sharks, a special premiering Wednesday night during Discovery’s annual Shark Week TV event, experts profile the thresher shark as a predator that’s developed ...