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Australian scientists photograph new deep sea species-

Shark graveyard and new species of marine predator also found on ocean floor

After discovering a host of bizarre creatures of the deep near Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia's national science agency CSIRO has found something quite surprising in the depths of the watery abyss: a shark graveyard, full of fossilized teeth, some...

Scientists in Australia found the megalodon ancestors tooth along with more than 750 other fossilised teeth in a shark graveyard at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

One of the teeth they found was likely from a close relative of the megalodon

Lurking deep below the oceans surface, off the coast of Australia, scientists have made an exciting, tooth...

Sydney, Australia, Dec 7 (EFE).- Scientists have discovered the fossilized teeth of an ancestor of the prehistoric megalodon in a shark graveyard in the Australian Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park, the government reported Wednesday. The discovery was made during a research trip aboard the scientific vessel Investigator, operated by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, during …

The new species was found in one of the most remote, and deepest, marine environments in Australia.