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The shark skeleton refurbished by Kraniata and pictured below is a short-finned mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), one of two living mako sharks. (The other being the long-finned mako.) ...
Md. family uncovers 15-million-year-old shark skeleton during backyard dig November 7, 2014 More than 10 years ago Stephen Godfrey (left) and Shawn Gibson excavate around the fossilized shark skull.
The complete fossilized skeleton of a shark that existed more than 350 million-years-ago has been discovered for the first time, a find researchers say is "unprecedented." ...
Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized form of cartilage. These creatures are more than just fast swimmers ...
Amazing fossil shark skeleton is the first of its kind. Skulls and a nearly complete skeleton offer our best look yet at a shark that lived about 360 million years ago.
"It is very soft, so it normally just disappears," Cuetara told CTV. "The part we normally find from the shark is the teeth, because they are the only hard part of the skeleton.But, in this case ...
Scientists found the head of a 330-million-year-old shark in a Kentucky cave 00:57. Researchers were "stunned" when they discovered the remnants of a huge, fossilized shark head in the walls of a ...
Looks like “Jaws” can get an origin story. Paleontologists discovered fossils of an ancient “shark” species now known to have swam the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago during the ...
At Kyoto University, the pair came upon a skeleton dubbed No. 24. ... "The shark attack presented here is just one small part of the larger, lived experience of the Jōmon people," White says.
Using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing, researchers are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic ...