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Emma Bernard, a curator of fossil fish at the Museum, says, 'Shark-like scales from the Late Ordovician have been found, but no teeth. If these were from sharks it would suggest that the earliest ...

The fossil record offers snapshots of the past, revealing how life has evolved over millions of years. By studying fossils, ...

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), ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout ... That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top ...

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Some modern shark species, like the Japanese bullhead, also have small blade-like parts on its dorsal fin. After the fossil’s discovery last year, other fossils found in the general vicinity ...

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 ...

The only fossils that remain of the megalodon — the largest known shark ever to exist — are its human-hand-sized teeth. The prehistoric shark, which roamed Earth's oceans for over 20 million ...

“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 ...

the largest shark that ever lived. A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ferocious predator, the great white shark. The battle for diminishing ...