Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its story begins on a rocky shoreline near Darwin, where a few heavy disks of ...
Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...
PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...
As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the answer is simple: I’m astounded by the fact that I can walk along the beach in ...
Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors. Long before forests reshaped Earth’s ...
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‘It is beyond one-in-a-million’: Family discovers 32-million-year old turtle fossil while fishing on the Alabama River
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When Charleston resident Grant Martin found his first shark tooth on a Hilton Head Island beach when he was a kid, he thought he discovered one of the greatest secrets in the world. “I thought, ‘Why ...
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