Remarkably, fossil shark teeth are also incredibly abundant. Sharks ruled the earth’s oceans for 400 million years, and every individual grows and sheds thousands of teeth in their lifetime.

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

Discovering a megalodon tooth is extremely exciting, because it helps to prove the existence of some of the largest sharks of all time, which are believed to have gone extinct roughly 3.6 million ...

It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres. Without a complete megalodon skeleton to measure, these figures are based on ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

Roughly three weeks ago, Jon Dodd, the executive director of the Atlantic Shark Institute (ASI), received a call from a friend who had found a large fossilized tooth during a morning stroll on the ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

A “serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric shark tooth, experts say. It belonged to a Squalicorax falcatus shark, which ...

Shark tooth fossils in sandstone matrix, Lamna obliqua, Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago), ... [+] Morocco, (Specimen courtesy of Ron Stebler, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA), (Photo by Wild ...

It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres. Without a complete megalodon skeleton to measure, these figures are based on ...

That's tens of millions of years older than the better known—and monstrously large—megalodon shark. Fossil hunters discovered the tooth "eroding" from a block of sandstone on the fossil-rich ...

That’s tens of millions of years older than the better known — and monstrously large — megalodon shark. Fossil hunters discovered the tooth “eroding” from a block of sandstone on the ...