This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Another 'one in a million find': 2nd great white shark tooth fossil found in Narragansett ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Amateur fossil hunters dream of finding the ancient ... Mrs Sampson wrote that her daughters, Molly and Natalie, wanted to "go sharks tooth hunting like professionals" and had asked for insulated ...
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), ...
WHILE Dorset’s Jurassic Coast is the country’s most well-known spot for fossil hunting, there are other parts of the UK where Brits can live out their Jurassic Park fantasies. One of ...
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 ...