For a shark that vanishes almost as quickly as it appears, the great white has left behind a surprisingly messy family ...
Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its story begins on a rocky shoreline near Darwin, where a few heavy disks of ...
A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments ...
Scientists found shark teeth inside fossil whale skulls, revealing how sharks fed on whales millions of years ago.
PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...
Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...