Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...
Sharks have survived the many changes to Earth’s environment since they first appeared during the mid-Devonian period around 400 million years ago. Much of their success can be credited to a ...
A new study by Case Western Reserve University PhD student Russell Engelman published in PeerJ Life & Environment attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology – what were the size of ...
Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...
Researchers used 3D printing and computed tomography (CT) imaging to get a better understanding of a prehistoric shark and its unusual jaw, in a study published on November 17 in Communications ...
Scientists have shown that the Titanichthys -- a giant armored fish that lived in the seas and oceans of the late Devonian period 380-million-years ago -- fed in a similar manner to modern day basking ...