Ancient Sea Monsters Found in Longest Cave | 325 Million Year Discovery

Ancient Sea Monsters Found in Longest Cave | 325 Million Year Discovery

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Trapped for 325 Million Years, Two Strange Sea Monsters Resurfaced From the Depths of the Earth’s Longest Cave

Deep beneath Kentucky’s rolling hills, in the dark reaches of Mammoth Cave National Park, paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of two never-before-seen prehistoric shark species. Preserved in limestone for over 325 million years, the discovery opens a rare and vivid window into a vanished Carboniferous sea that once covered much of inland North America. The two sharks—Troglocladodus trimblei and Glikmanius careforum—belong to an…