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 ...

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting fossil teeth deep inside a formation with the cave system.

Read more. Story idea? [email protected]. The fossilized remains of a newly discovered ancient shark species found in the depths of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park reveal not ...

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 ...

More 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 ...

ALTHOUGH Wells 1 and Scrutton 2 suggested methods of studying fossils to determine probable changes in day length, few studies have followed these suggestions. We have examined fossil bivalve ...

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 ...