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Four Places to Find Fossilized Shark Teeth in the United States
Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the ...
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80 million-year-old sea monster jaws filled with giant globular teeth for crushing prey discovered in Texas
Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in ...
Nubby-Toothed Sea Monster Once Prowled Texas Seas, Recent Fossil Discovery Suggests
The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...
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How sharks got their huge fins
the hammerhead and other “pelagic” sharks owe their status as the ocean’s top predators to a sustained bout of global warming 93 million years ago, a study has found. At that point, during the ...
A Biologist Spotlights 4 ‘Invincible’ Animals That Survived The 5 Mass Extinctions
In the past 500 million years on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions. Here are a few incredible species that managed ...
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60-million-Year-Old Fish was Found Alive
The coelacanth is an oddly-named lobe-fish that was thought to be extinct for more than 60 million years until it was ...
Animals that are with us since the time of dinosaurs
The mighty, huge, and scary-looking dinosaurs once walked this Earth, but a cataclysmic event that occurred some 66 million years ago wiped them out. This event triggered a series of changes in ...