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Godzilla Shark found in New Mexico mountains gets an official name

Godzilla Shark found in New Mexico mountains gets an official name Share Updated: 1:45 PM MDT Apr 22, 2021 Share Updated: 1:45 PM MDT Apr 22, 2021 GET LOCAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTS The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 1:45 PM MDT Apr 22, 2021 When you think of New Mexico wildlife, sharks aren’t typically where the mind wanders. But that’s exactly what one graduate found in the Manzano Mountains in 2013.Well, not an actual shark, but remnants of one. “I was just sitting in a shady spot using a pocket knife to split and shift through the shaley limestones, not finding much except fragments of plants and a few fish scales, when suddenly I hit something that was a bit denser,” John-Paul Hodnett said. At the time Hodnett was a graduate student visiting the area with a group of scientists.According to a news release the group was about to leave when Hodnett came across what he would later learn w

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Apr 20, 2021 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) The 300-million-year-old shark’s teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species. The ancient chompers looked less like the spear-like rows of teeth of related species. They were squatter and shorter, less than an inch long, around 2 centimeters. “Great for grasping and crushing prey rather than piercing prey,” said discoverer John-Paul Hodnett, who was a graduate student when he unearthed the first fossils of the shark at a dig east of Albuquerque in 2013. This week, Hodnett and a slew of other researchers published their findings in a bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science identifying the shark as a separate species.

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