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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.
Extinct or Alive is an American wildlife documentary television programme produced for Animal Planet by Hot Snakes Media of New York City, the United States.It is hosted by wildlife biologist and television personality Forrest Galante, who travels to different locations around the globe to learn about possibly extinct animals and whether or not there is a chance that they may still be extant. [1]
According to last year's white shark population study, at least 800 individual white sharks visited the waters off Cape Cod over a four-year period, and the team has tagged more than 300 of them.
A Pennsylvania 8-year-old on vacation in SC found a huge fossilized tooth from a long-extinct shark species. ... The largest ones were three times the size of the biggest sharks that exist today.
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 ...
The fossils of Otodus sharks indicate that they were very large macro-predatory sharks. [7] The largest known teeth of O. obliquus measure about 104 millimetres (4.1 in) in height. [8] The vertebral centrum of this species are over 12.7 cm (5 inch) wide. [7] Scientists suggest that O. obliquus would have measured about 8–9 metres (26–30 ft ...
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Aquilolamna is an extinct genus of shark-like elasmobranch from the Late Cretaceous ()-aged Agua Nueva Formation of Mexico.It is currently known to contain only one species, A. milarcae, also known as the eagle shark, and it is classified in its own family Aquilolamnidae, which has been tentatively assigned to the mackerel sharks.