One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Everyone knows us for our bottle digging and metal detecting but we decided to do something a bit different!! Our first ...

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 in Palaeogeography, ...

Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the ...

The fossil of the shark that roamed the seas millions of years ago was exceptionally well preserved, leaving experts stunned. This shark is believed to have been an ancestor of the famed great white.

Fossil teeth of extinct megalodon sharks have grooves made by other megalodon teeth, hinting at violent encounters between ...

Shark teeth are the most common fossil locally, Hoppe said, because these ancient sharks, like their modern equivalents, drop up to 10,000 teeth throughout their lifetimes. “I often get asked ...

LIMA – Paleontologists in Peru on Jan 20 unveiled a nine million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it ...

Sharks were unusually less bitey in 2024, as reports of shark bites dropped for the year in New Jersey and worldwide.

Remarkably, fossil shark teeth are also incredibly abundant. Sharks ruled the earth's oceans for 400 million years, and every individual grows and sheds thousands of teeth in their lifetime.

Our study was one of the first to date Florida coastal deposits using fossil shark teeth and a technique that looks at variations in ocean strontium. Strontium is a chemical element that occurs ...