triangular teeth. ‘Sharks have been around for 420 million years,’ explains Emma Bernard, our Fossil Fish Curator. ‘In that time, there have been as many as 5,000 different species. One of the reasons ...
sharp teeth. The preservation of this shark fossil is remarkable, as complete shark skeletons are exceedingly rare. C.
A “ serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shark teeth are the most common fossil locally, Hoppe said, because these ancient sharks, like their modern equivalents, drop up to 10,000 teeth throughout their lifetimes. “I often get asked ...
Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil belonging to an ancestor of the great white shark.
A “serrated blade” found sticking from a rock on Isle of Wight in the UK has been identified as a shark tooth that could be 100 million years old, experts say. Wight Coast Fossils photo A ...