The debate remains unresolved in part due to sharks lacking bones and discovering cartilage skeletons is relatively rare. Still, several fossilized records of the megalodon have been discovered ...

including Clavusodens mcginnisi identified from small fossilized teeth. The newly identified shark had an estimated length of only 8 to 10 centimeters (3 to 4 inches). It belonged to a group of ...

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there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth are some of the most abundant remnants of prehistoric oceans, providing scientists with crucial ...

He also cautions that this dataset doesn’t necessarily allow for broad inferences about mammals later on in the Cretaceous, as the fossils are mostly representative of the earlier part of the ...

What we have discovered are the fossil ... a shark toothed dinosaur, ever found in Australia. The Carcharodontosaurus was another species of therapod that lived in the Cretaceous period.

Still, they’ve yielded more than 50,000 cataloged marine and terrestrial fossils, from reptilian mosasaurs to sea turtles, sharks ... remains of several late Cretaceous-era dinosaurs and ...