When you think of a shark, what comes through your mind? Well, I will tell you mine. I see a big fish with sharp teeth gliding through the blue ocean. What if I told you that the same water animal has ...

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 ...

The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, ...

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Scientists have found an exceptionally preserved giant fossil of an ancestor to great white sharks, revealing how these ancient predators that lived alongside dinosaurs went extinct. Sharks of the ...

Unfortunately, this ancestor is long dead ... Now let's compare traits on the lamprey-dolphin-shark-wolf branch. Dolphins and sharks both have a torpedo-like shape, so are they the closest ...

Researchers have discovered a fossil that shares characteristics of an ancient ancestor to sharks, the first such finding in Japan. A fossil of the blade-like part of the hybodus species was found ...