Paleontologists have unearthed the nearly complete fossil of a colossal shark that prowled the ancient seas some nine million years ago. The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an ...
He said: "Whilst fossil fish are known in pavements in cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh, to my knowledge these fossils seem to have gone amiss." Caithness flagstone quarried in the north ...
This shark is believed to have been an ancestor of the famed great white. The fossil has shown that its teeth spanned up to an astonishing ... "They had an elongated snout and their diet was entirely ...
But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still lurking in the dark depths of the ocean? Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including ...
But was this apex predator simply a beefed-up great white shark, and is it still lurking in the dark depths of the ocean? Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including ...
Only a handful of them have been preserved as fossils. Fossils are ancient organisms ... also called an armoured fish. It existed 400 million years ago. It was uncovered in 1980 on the north ...