So, they don't leave behind bony fossils like dinosaurs or humans would. So, when people find remnants of the ancient sharks that are that big, it's a big deal. Basak called the tooth a "unicorn ...

A recent diving trip off the coast of Florida resulted in an ancient discovery. Kristina Scott found a 6-inch megalodon shark tooth while fossil diving in Venice. She said she’s been fossil diving for ...

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 ...

So there’s already a bias in this kind of fossil record.” To glean more about megalodon’s prey selection, McCormack and his coauthors looked at the giant shark’s fossilized teeth and ...

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. Our study was one ...

Shark teeth are often considered the most common vertebrate fossils in the world, and for good reason. Each individual shark has rows upon rows of chompers that fall out and get replaced in ...

The warm water of the Palm Beaches attracts tons of sharks. The teeth they leave here make for some of the best shark tooth ...

Students then get to work with fossil kits containing 15 real fossil shark teeth and one 3D-printed megalodon tooth. Megalodons were behemoth sharks that roamed the waters starting 20 million ...

and many of the shark teeth aren’t fossils. Shark teeth fossils are typically thousands to millions of years old. They’re darker in color because the organic material has been replaced with ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...