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 ...
His collection includes goblin shark teeth and a prize fossil of a hadrosaur. "I hunt dead things," Honachefsky said with a laugh. "When I find something, I feel like I'm giving it life again ...
A prehistoric food fight may have spelled the end for the megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived. A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ...