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The behemoth clocked in at a whopping 6 1/6 inches in length—roughly the size of a human hand!
The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.
On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
Virginia-native Foster Frazier, 7, was digging along the side of a stream at the tourist hotspot when he uncovered the nearly 5-inch tooth, which reportedly belonged to a prehistoric megalodon.
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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 following month, a 10-year-old boy from Maryland was bitten in his leg by a shark on Jan. 15, 2024 while "participating in an expedition in a shark tank" at a resort on Paradise Island, police ...
In the 1994 book Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea, and Dancing to the Fossil Record, author Brad Matsen and artist Ray Troll describe and depict a reconstruction based on the information gleaned by Bendix-Almgreen (1966). They proposed that no teeth were present in the animal's upper jaw, besides crushing teeth for the whorl to cut against.