Researchers: Huge shark came before megalodon

An Enormous Shark Ruled the Seas Before the Megalodon, Fossils Reveal

Tens of millions of years before the megalodon, a massive shark was running the oceans. According to new research, a previously overlooked set of fossils found near Darwin, Australia, belonged to the earliest known mega-predatory shark in the modern shark lineage. It turns out the big fella existed way earlier than scientists thought was even possible. The shark lived around 115 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. That’s when the oc…

Researchers: Huge shark came before megalodon

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bussized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period.