GUWAHATI: Evidence suggesting that Northeast India was once part of a vast ocean has gone missing. A partially fossilized jaw ...

In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the ...

A megalodon tooth fossil in the National Museum of Natural ... predator with the right shape to fit its lifestyle chasing whales. Where great whites have incredible girth, megalodon is more ...

baleen in place of teeth for straining krill—present in cetaceans today. Thanks in large part to Philip Gingerich, the fossil record of whales now offers one of the most stunning demonstrations ...

For example, our knowledge of Megalodon's existence comes from the fossil record, which reveals teeth designed for hunting dolphins and whales. These teeth occur in the fossil record between 15 ...

Overall, the fossil record and anatomical studies of baleen whales illustrate a complex evolutionary ... system using baleen plates instead of teeth. Archaeocetes: An extinct group of early ...

Almost all fossil remains of megalodon are teeth. Sharks continually produce teeth throughout ... like the larger toothed whales. As ice formed at the poles and the sea level dropped, these pupping ...

Whale sharks have 300 rows of teeth that are less than six ... which slowly turns the tooth into a fossil.’ The colour of a shark tooth fossil will depend on the minerals present in the sediment. For ...

AN INCREDIBLE nine million year old ancestor of the great white shark has been discovered in Peru. The 23ft long beast had ...