This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Another 'one in a million find': 2nd great white shark tooth fossil found in Narragansett ...
“A few years ago, I was looking through the historical fossil collections at the Geological Survey in Alabama and came across a small box of shark teeth that were collected over 100 years ago in ...
All sharks have teeth, but what may surprise you is that they don’t all have sharp, triangular teeth. ‘Sharks have been around for 420 million years,’ explains Emma Bernard, our Fossil Fish Curator.
But what did they evolve from, are they 'living fossils', and how did they survive five mass extinctions? Sharks belong to a group of creatures known as cartilaginous fishes, because most of their ...
Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), horse tooth (5), petrified wood (6), graptolite (7), fish (8), ...
A man has shared a photo of an animal tooth his wife found in her backyard when she was a child, wowing social media users with the fossil ... that it belonged to a shark, with one writing ...
Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...
Scientists have discovered that the long-extinct megalodon, also known as the megatooth shark, had a body temperature ... a mineral in the megalodon’s fossil teeth called apatite.