Editor’s note: This post looks back to 2012, when the accompanying image was captured on a Mexican beach, at a time when it was not widely known that adult great white sharks inhabited the Sea ...
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The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km south of Lima in Peru’s Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species. The shark is ...
The fossil is believed to be an ancestor of the great white shark. -AP Paleontologists in Peru have unveiled the nine-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited ...
The phenomenon calls to mind the critters that continuously regrow their chompers — for example, sandbar sharks, which sprout tens of thousands of serrated teeth over time; and rabbits ...