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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 ...
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 awe-inspiring 15-foot leap in the video above was the highest breach ever recorded, becoming a new record for Discovery Channel’s popular Shark Week series. Since then, several other sharks ...
Carcharomodus is an extinct genus of lamnid shark.Its only species is Carcharomodus escheri, [1] commonly nicknamed the serrated mako shark or Escher's mako shark.It is an extinct lamnid that lived during the Miocene and that was formerly thought to have been transitional between the broad-toothed "mako" Cosmopolitodus hastalis and the modern great white, but is now considered to be an ...
Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives is a 2013 film that aired on the Discovery Channel about the potential survival of the prehistoric shark. Purported to be a documentary, the story revolves around numerous videos, "photographs", and firsthand encounters with a megalodon and an ensuing investigation that points to the involvement of the prehistoric species, despite the long-held belief of its ...
The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.
Hemipristis serra is an extinct species of weasel shark which existed during the Miocene epoch. It was described by Louis Agassiz in 1843. [ 1 ] While today's snaggletooth shark is not very large or dangerous, Hemipristis serra , which lived in the Atlantic Ocean during the Oligocene and Miocene, was considerably larger than its modern-day ...
A great white shark that washed ashore at a Cape Cod beach earlier this week is named Koala, and was known to local researchers, investigators said. Its cause of death is still a mystery, as a ...