US EditionScientists Found That This Ancient Shark Was Bigger Than a Boat, and It’s a Relative of the Great White
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"It's the Ancestor of the Great White Shark": a 7-Metre-Long Fossil Has Just Been Discovered in Peru
For decades, the Pisco Basin has been recognized as one of the richest paleontological sites in the world. Its geological conditions favour exceptional fossilization, allowing scientists to reconstruct prehistoric marine fauna with rare precision. After the ancestral crocodiles and the largest skull of river dolphin ever found, it is now a giant shark that resurfaces. The fossil of Cosmopolitodus hastalis, nine million years old, is almost compl…
Scientists Found That This Ancient Shark Was Bigger Than a Boat, and It’s a Relative of the Great White
Unearthed in the Pisco Basin, a region renowned for its extraordinary marine fossil record, a specimen has been identified as Cosmopolitodus hastalis, an ancient relative of the modern great white shark. The find is considered exceptional due to the near-complete preservation of the skeleton, a rarity in shark paleontology. Located about 235 kilometers south of Lima, the arid coastal desert where the fossil was found was once submerged beneath t…
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