#Ancient shark glided through the sea with wing-like fins

#Ancient shark glided through the sea with wing-like fins

“#Ancient shark glided through the sea with wing-like fins” WASHINGTON – About 93 million years ago, a bizarre plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiously elongated wing-like fins that rendered its body wider than it was long. Scientists on Thursday announced…

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#‘Almost complete’ ancient shark fossil sheds new light on Earth’s past

#‘Almost complete’ ancient shark fossil sheds new light on Earth’s past

“#‘Almost complete’ ancient shark fossil sheds new light on Earth’s past” Experts have discovered an “almost-complete” fossil of a 150-million-year-old shark in Germany, giving them a nearly unprecedented look into Earth’s distant past. The study, published in the scientific journal Papers in Palaeontology, describes a fossilized Asteracanthus, which lived between 361 million years and 66 million years ago. The fossil was…

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#Trixie the whale shark dies at Georgia Aquarium

#Trixie the whale shark dies at Georgia Aquarium

“#Trixie the whale shark dies at Georgia Aquarium” The Georgia Aquarium’s largest female whale shark died Friday. The massive mammal, named Trixie, was one of the first whale sharks that arrived at the Atlanta facility in 2006, the aquarium wrote on Facebook. Recently, “she was having difficulty navigating the habitat earlier in the day and then…

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#Megalodon fossils discovered all over the world

#Megalodon fossils discovered all over the world

“#Megalodon fossils discovered all over the world” Megalodons, the apex predator of the seas, may have gone extinct more than 3.5 million years ago, but experts may have discovered nurseries of the massive shark all around the world, according to a new study. The research, published in Biology Letters, notes that nurseries of the megalodon…

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#‘The fish of a lifetime’

#‘The fish of a lifetime’

“#‘The fish of a lifetime’” Talk about a shark with huge pearly whites. The first-ever albino shark has been captured off Britain, near the Isle Of Wight, British news agency SWNS reports. Jason Gillespie was deep-sea fishing in the area when he spotted the remarkable three-foot tope shark. “I’ve been fishing for 30 years and…

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