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The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.
Galagadon (/ ɡ æ l ʌ ɡ ə d ɒ n /) is an extinct genus of small carpet shark that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. It contains one species, G. nordquistae. It was named after the video game Galaga due to a resemblance between its teeth and the spaceships in the game, [1] and Field Museum volunteer Karen Nordquist.
The behemoth clocked in at a whopping 6 1/6 inches in length—roughly the size of a human hand!
Paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of an aquatic “dragon” that prowled the Pacific Ocean millions of years ago. The monstrous predator — which measured as long as a great ...
Ptychodus (from Greek: πτυχή ptyche 'fold' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') [1] is a genus of extinct large durophagous (shell-crushing) lamniform sharks from the Cretaceous period, spanning from the Albian to the Campanian. [2] Fossils of Ptychodus teeth are found in many Late Cretaceous marine sediments worldwide. [3]
Cretalamna is a genus of extinct otodontid shark that lived from the latest Early Cretaceous to Eocene epoch (about 103 to 46 million years ago). It is considered by many to be the ancestor of the largest sharks to have ever lived, such as Otodus angustidens , Otodus chubutensis , and Otodus megalodon .
The pieces are now reunited, creating a single 5.5-inch-long, 5.1-inch-wide tooth that came from one of the world’s most fearsome predators — a prehistoric shark that reached nearly 60 feet in ...
Palaeocarcharodon, also known as the pygmy white shark, is a genus of shark within the family Otodontidae [1] that lived about 61.7 to 55.8 Ma during the Paleocene. It currently contains a sole species P. orientalis .