When Charleston resident Grant Martin found his first shark tooth on a Hilton Head Island beach when he was a kid, he thought ...
The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work. As paleontologists ...
A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long before the famous Megalodon ever evolved. By pushing the origin of giant ...
In the scorching desert of Peru's Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the nearly complete fossil of a colossal shark that prowled the ancient seas some ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Most kids have a natural curiosity about sharks − especially their sharp and abundant teeth. Our team had the idea to use the appeal of this charismatic apex predator to teach how ...
Louis Iocona has a passion for prehistoric pieces, like the tooth of a Squalicorax or "crow shark." "Even 60 million years later they're still razor sharp," he says. Iocona shares that enthusiasm ...
New Jersey is known for many things: the Jersey Shore, Atlantic City and the Sopranos. But it’s now becoming known for something else — a hotbed of dinosaur activity. When an asteroid hit Mexico 66 ...