The museum is a 44,000-square-foot facility overlooking a 4-acre fossil-filled former sand quarry in Mantua, Gloucester ...

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 ...

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 ...

and fossils from semionotid fish, which had armor-like skin and were dietary staples of dinosaurs fishing the area. Experts attribute the prevalence of shark and other fish finds extracted from ...

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 ...

The Mantua site will feature life-size models and guides to help guests identify and search for their own specimens.

Cave specialist Rick Toomey says that while the fossils themselves were discovered years ago, the park just recently acquired the resources and experts necessary to identify them. “It’s part of our ...

Based on a partial 36-foot (11-meter) fossilized megalodon vertebral column (spine) previously unearthed in Belgium, the team investigated how big the shark’s other body parts might have been.

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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 ...

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 ...