Plummer told CBS News that alongside these tools they also discovered a tooth fossil from an early hominin called Paranthropus – an early hominin that is not a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens. This ...
That’s tens of millions of years older than the better known — and monstrously large — megalodon shark. Fossil hunters discovered the tooth “eroding” from a block of sandstone on the ...
Shark tooth fossils in sandstone matrix, Lamna obliqua, Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago), ... [+] Morocco, (Specimen courtesy of Ron Stebler, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA), (Photo by Wild ...