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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.
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 fact that the bite marks were found on the tooth's roots further suggest that the shark broke the whale's jaw during the bite, suggesting the bite was extremely powerful. The fossil is also notable as it stands as the first known instance of an antagonistic interaction between a sperm whale and an otodontid shark recorded in the fossil record.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z References Precambrian-Mesozoic Since the oldest of the Hawaiian islands is a little more than 5 million years old ...
The islands of East Polynesia (including New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island) were among the last habitable places on earth colonized by humans. [3] Estimates for the timing of Polynesian settlement in Hawaii have been uncertain, [ 4 ] but a 2010 study based on radiocarbon dates of more reliable samples suggests that Hawaii was first settled ...
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 ...
Stethacanthus is an extinct genus of shark-like cartilaginous fish which lived from the Late Devonian to Late Carboniferous epoch, dying out around 298.9 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Australia , Asia , Europe and North America .
A sawfish, a type of ray related to sharks, is immediately recognizable by its long, tooth-lined snout, called a rostrum or saw. 'Prehistoric' relative of sharks struggle to make a comeback near ...