Prehistoric Shark's Teeth Had Their Own Tiny Fangs, Alabama Fossils Reveal
The newly discovered shark lived in the Paleocene period, approximately 65 million years ago.
Source: newsweek.com
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The newly discovered shark lived in the Paleocene period, approximately 65 million years ago.
"This time period is understudied, which makes the discovery of this new shark species that much more significant," said T. Lynn Harrell Jr., a paleontologist and fossil collections curator at the Geological Survey of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
“A few years ago, I was looking through the historical fossil collections and came across a small box of shark teeth that were collected over 100 years ago in
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