triangular teeth. ‘Sharks have been around for 420 million years,’ explains Emma Bernard, our Fossil Fish Curator. ‘In that time, there have been as many as 5,000 different species. One of the reasons ...

Shark tooth fossils in sandstone matrix, Lamna obliqua, Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago), ... [+] Morocco, (Specimen courtesy of Ron Stebler, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA), (Photo by Wild ...

A “serrated blade” found sticking from a rock on Isle of Wight in the UK has been identified as a shark tooth that could be 100 million years old, experts say. Wight Coast Fossils photo A ...

Peruvian paleontologists have revealed a 9-million-year-old fossil belonging to an ancestor of the great white shark.

Shark teeth are the most common fossil locally, Hoppe said, because these ancient sharks, like their modern equivalents, drop up to 10,000 teeth throughout their lifetimes. “I often get asked ...