300 million-year-old 'supershark' fossils found in Texas
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 17:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Previously, giant sharks had only been recovered from rock dating back 130 million years, during the age of the dinosaurs. The largest shark that ever lived, commonly called "Megalodon", is much younger, with an oldest occurrence at about 15 million years ago. This means the new fossils from Texas indicate giant sharks go much further back into the fossil record.