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The monstrous predator — which measured as long as a great white shark — belongs to a brand new species, according to a Dec. 12 University of Cincinnati news release.
The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.
The shark is believed to be an ancestor of the great white shark. It is now extinct, but its teeth once spanned up to 8.9 cm (3.5 inches) in length, while adults could grow to near seven meters in ...
The lost shark (Carcharhinus obsoletus), [a] previously known as the false smalltail shark, is a possibly extinct species of requiem shark (family Carcharhinidae). It is known only from the Western Central Pacific Ocean , in the southern South China Sea .
Cretoxyrhina (/ k r ɪ ˌ t ɒ k s i ˈ r h aɪ n ə /; meaning 'Cretaceous sharp-nose') is an extinct genus of large mackerel shark that lived about 107 to 73 million years ago during the late Albian to late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous.
Ptychodus was a large shark, previously estimated at 10 meters (33 feet) long based on extrapolation from teeth. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The subadult specimen with the largest vertebra showed that it could reach lengths of 4.3–7.07 m (14.1–23.2 ft), so a 10 m (33 ft) length is possible, but more analysis is required for verification.
The behemoth clocked in at a whopping 6 1/6 inches in length—roughly the size of a human hand!
Keasius is an extinct genus of basking sharks that lived during the Cenozoic. It contains four valid species, which have been found in North America , Europe , and Antarctica . [ 1 ] [ 3 ]